Practicing Success
When does the population of a country achieve replacement level? |
When the difference between birth and death rate is zero When the difference between birth and death rate is ten When the difference between birth and death rate is hundred When the difference between birth and death rate is thousand |
When the difference between birth and death rate is zero |
The rate of natural increase or the growth rate of population refers to the difference between the birth rate and the death rate. When this difference is zero (or, in practice, very small) then we say that the population has ‘stabilised’, or has reached the ‘replacement level’, which is the rate of growth required for new generations to replace the older ones that are dying out. |