# Demographic transition { "id": "S85036658", "title": "Demographic transition", "url": "/topics/S85036658", "kind": "topic-directory", "aeo_cohort": "topic-directory", "provider": "lcsh", "revision": "a3d0bac0015e0639", "catalogue_revision": "f050b5d4780b1289", "numeric_address": "10088208575727288836", "address_version": "morton4x16-v1", "coordinates": [ 0, 20, 17977, 51200 ], "answer_status": "Directory metadata; local answer requires separate source review", "truth_status": "Subject descriptor, not a factual answer or a demonstrated knowledge gap" } Here are entered works on the theory that the initial effect of modernization in human societies is a growing margin of births over deaths and an accelerating rate of population growth, and that at a later stage of socioeconomic development the size of the family is reduced by birth control and the birth rate falls, eventually reducing the rate of population growth. Directory metadata is not a factual answer or evidence of a global knowledge gap. Source: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85036658 No owner-reviewed local answer yet.