Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

demographic transition

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.81 in modern English

Syllables: de-mo-graph-ic -tran-si-tion
IPA

32

Scrabble Score

21

Letters

7

Syllables

14

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The process that represents the transition from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates as a country develops from a pre-industrial to an industrialized economic system.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Yet it does bring up a much more real problem about China's demographic transition, which has led some to argue that China will "get old before it gets rich.""

Usage

Inflected Forms

demographic transitions (plural)

Questions

What does demographic transition mean?: The process that represents the transition from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates as a country develops from a pre-industrial to an industrialized economic system.

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