positives and negatives of the DTM
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- Created on: 01-04-15 10:35
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- positives and negatives of the DTM
- positives
- easy to understand
- can be used to compare countries
- can be applied globally to al countries
- provides a starter for all demographic countries
- provides a useful generalisation of population change over time
- can be used to predict the future
- can be used to compare rates of growth between different countries at a given point in time
- can be used to estimate population structure
- negatives
- model is Eurocentric, assumes all countries will pass through every stage, some LEDC's will skip stages
- does not take migration into account as a factor of population growth and decline
- model does not take into account natural disasters, wars etc
- originally there was no fifth stage
- does not take into account recent phenomena (eg: AIDS)
- does not consider the positive and negative roles in which a government can play
- does not consider the role of migration
- positives
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