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A country's growth rate falls from 3 percent to 1.5 percent, yet its annual absolute increase remains large for some time. What is the main reason?

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Correct answer: A lower rate on a large population base can still add many people

A growth rate is a percentage applied to the population base, while absolute growth is the actual number of people added. These two measures can move differently. When the starting population is very large, even a smaller percentage can represent a large number of people. Thus, a falling rate does not automatically mean that the annual numerical increase becomes small immediately.

For example, 1.5 percent of a very large population may still be millions of people. Therefore, option B is correct: a lower rate on a large population base can continue to add many people. The question does not imply that birth rates rose, deaths stopped, or land area expanded. Those factors are either unsupported or unrelated to the mathematical reason for a large absolute increase.

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Large Population BaseDeclining Growth RateAbsolute IncreasePopulation MomentumPopulation GrowthThe World Population – DistributionDensity And GrowthThe World Population Distribution Density And Growth

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