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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by

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industrialization because who wants windmills when you could have huge coal [Wind turbines appear]

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fed flowers spewing smoke alright let's check out today's question which of the

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following countries within stage 4 of the demographic transition model and

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here are potential answers....well unlike with a disease or a burn

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where higher stages and degrees are more severe later stages of demographic [Man picks up kettle with glove]

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transition are actually where you want to be so at the very least we know that

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whichever the stage or country is it isn't full of slimming burnt-up citizens [People coughing]

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we've got lots of options here and lots of stages of demographic transition so

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let's see which one falls squarely into Stage four and which ones are in the [Man throws ball to basketball net and falls over]

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earlier less correct stages well stage 1 covers pre-industrial societies where

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death and birth rates are very high producing a very young population young

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people ruled that only because drought and disease truly rule none of these [People in a room and man coughs]

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options are in stage one so they're all still contenders for stage 4 status well

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in stage 2 improvements in the food supply in public health lead to falling

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death rates and rapidly increasing populations which is fine if you like

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people Angola with its rapid population growth is in stage 2 which knocks sea as

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a running in stage 3 the birth rate starts to fall and the population [Man opens cupboard and babies appear]

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becomes more stable so no need to worry about funding new babies in every nook

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and cranny well this describes developing countries

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like Vietnam El Salvador and Bangladesh where fertility rates are dropping so a

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B and D all bike to dust well in stage 4 we finally have population stability [Population stability chart appears]

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with low birth and death rates so everyone can just you know relax and eat [Woman laying on sun lounger]

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some chocolate because there's nothing as relaxing as being in a developed

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industrialized country except for being in a sauna so those things are pretty [Men sitting in a sauna]

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great either way Belgium fits the bill with its low birth and death rate so at

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long last we have our answer is e and those lucky Belgians have it all low

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birth and death rates the windmills and endless endless waffles [Plate of waffles appear in syrup]

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yeah we just hope they have endless maple syrup to go with them

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