11/19

today in class we watched a video about population and how it grew over the past two hundred years ago, or just about. It showed that around 1810 all countries and nations were in stage one with a high birth rate and high death rate. Around the industrial revolution European countries and the Americas started to grow in population and death rates started to rapidly decline and entered stage two and three, but the Asian region, the Middle East, and sub- Saharan Africa stayed in stage one. It showed how after time the Asian countries started to catch up, but sub-Saharan Africa was still behind, but not in stage one. It showed how during wars, plagues and tragedies, the countries would rapidly drop in life expectancy and how after wars, curtain countries would rapidly grow, and curtain countries would rapidly drop or not change at all depending on the results of the war. It eventually got into the 2000s and showed how sub- Saharan countries were far behind because they do not have the recourses that countries like the United States have. However, no country is in stage one.