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Compare and contrast the Demographic Transition of one MEDC and one LEDC. Give reasons for the similarities and differences in the CDR and CBR curves in each.  

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Compare and contrast the Demographic Transition of one MEDC and one LEDC. Give reasons for the similarities and differences in the CDR and CBR curves in each. The two countries that I'm going to compare and contrast their Demographic Transitions with each other are England and Wales, being the MECD, and Sri Lanka, being the LECD. Differences The main difference between the two demographic transitions is that the demographic transition for Sri Lanka is entirely a twentieth century occurrence. The data starts at 1911 - 1920 where the demographic transition for England and Wales starts at 1651 - 1680. This is a lot earlier. The CDR in England and Wales started to fall a long time before the CDR started to fall in Sri Lanka, it was about 1810 when England and Wales' crude death rates started to fall and although you cant be sure exactly when Sri Lanka's started to fall...

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