Question

Which of the following is true regarding birthrates?

A. A service economy usually has higher birthrate than an industrial economy.

B. As countries move from agricultural to industrial to services economies, birthrates decline.

C. Economic status of a country has minimal impact on the birthrates within that country.

D. Countries that move from agricultural economies to service economies experience increasing birthrates.

E. An agricultural economy finds it hard to support high birthrates, compared to an industrial economy.

Answer 1

Answer- A This statement is True. In times of industrial economy, most of the population was employed in the manufacturing sector and the conditions in those manufacturing units were not healthy. People suffered from asthama, skin diseases etc. Due to bad air and noise pollution people were not living a healthyblife and thus the birth rate was low. While in the service economy all of the above were true and the birth rate were quite high.

B. This statement is False. As the evonomies move from agriculture to indiatrial to service the death rate declines and the hirth rate eises. Die to better health care facilities and better standard of living people live a much healthier live.

C. This statement is False. Economic status vastly affects the birthrate of a country. Better the economic growth better the birthrate of the country. As an economy with high growth rate the standard of living will be high and people will be able to afgord medicare services and a healthy lifestyle can be adopted.

D. This statement is true. In service economies the facilities if health and medicare and ecudation are better than the agricultural economies. This leads to better health of people and thus higher birth rates.

E. This statement is False. People in the agricultural economy had cleaner air to breathe than the people of inustrial economy and were away from noise pollution also. They also had the privilege of eating organic food and thus had better lives even though the people in agricultural economy had less income.