12/10/19-essay practice

In todays class we started typing and researching our essay topic and here's what I've got so far:

Country A and Country B are in two different stages of the demographic transition.  They will both face different concerns in the future if their population pyramids remain the same.  Country A and B will experience different stages in the demographic transition that will change their population pyramids and could arise potential issues.

The demographic transition is a series of stages that a country experiences as it develops.  A country’s first stage has high crude birth and death rates and the NIR slowly increases. Stage one has high birth rate and rapidly declining death rate so the NIR increases rapidly.  Stage two usually happens when a revolution occurs. Stage three has rapidly declining birth rate, moderately declining death rate and a moderate NIR. This happens when people have fewer children.  Stage four has a very low birth rate, slightly increasing death rate and a zero or negative NIR. People have less kids because there’s access to birth control and women start entering the workforce.  

Country A’s population pyramid represents stage one.  This means they have a high birth and death rate and a slowly increasing NIR.  There are no countries nowadays that are still in stage one. Most countries stayed in this stage for hundreds of years.  The next stage this country will face is stage two when a revolution happens.