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If child mortality falls rapidly while fertility remains high for several years, why can future demographic momentum strengthen?

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Correct answer: More children survive and later enter reproductive ages

Demographic momentum means that population growth can continue because of the age structure created in earlier years. When child mortality falls, more of the children already born survive. If families still have many children for some years, the number of surviving young people becomes especially large. This creates a broad young age group, even before fertility begins to decline.

As these surviving children grow up, many will enter the reproductive ages at the same time. Even if each family later chooses fewer children, the large number of potential parents can keep births high for some time. Therefore, option A is correct. Option B is wrong because lower mortality does not make births zero; options C and D ignore the direct effect of a larger surviving cohort.

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Child Mortality DeclineDemographic MomentumYoung PopulationFuture BirthsPopulation GrowthThe World Population – DistributionDensity And GrowthThe World Population Distribution Density And Growth

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