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If both birth and death rates decline in a country but the birth rate remains considerably higher than the death rate, what happens to natural increase?

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Correct answer: It can remain positive

Natural increase depends on the difference between the birth rate and the death rate. Both rates may decline while the birth rate still remains higher than the death rate. In that situation, births still exceed deaths, so the natural increase remains positive, although it may be smaller than before.

For example, if the birth rate is 20 per thousand and the death rate is 12 per thousand, the natural increase is still positive at 8 per thousand. Migration is not needed to determine natural increase; it affects total population change separately. Therefore, option A is correct. It would be wrong to assume that falling rates automatically make the difference zero or negative.

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Birth Rate DeclineDeath Rate DeclinePositive Natural IncreasePopulation TrendPopulation GrowthThe World Population – DistributionDensity And GrowthThe World Population Distribution Density And Growth

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