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Which theory says population moves from high births and deaths to low births and deaths as society develops?

APush and pull migration
BCentral place model
CDemographic transition
DMalthusian catastrophe
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Demographic transition
1. Demographic transition theory predicts population change. 2. It has three stages. 3. Rural illiterate societies move to urban literate ones. _Source: NCERT Class 12 Geography, Fundamentals of Human Geography, Chapter 2, The World Population._
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