Demographic Transition Model Notes (conti.)

• transition from high birth + death rates to lower birth + death rates as a country or region develops from a pre-industrialized economic system
• textile mills started industrial revolution
• most developed countries have completed the demographic transition + have low birth rates
• most developing in process of this transition
• The more developed countries (core countries) are the industrialized capitalist countries on which developing countries depend

• core countries control + benefit from the global market