DTM Stages
Country Scenarios
Economic Measures
Social Measures
Definitions
100

This stage is characterized by low birth and death rates and stable population growth. Examples would be the USA, China, the UK, and Canada.

What is a Stage 4 Country?

100

Australia has a stable birth rate, rising death rate, and a high life expectancy. People would want to immigrate to this country.

What is a stage 4 Country?

100

What is the most common gender and age for an economic immigrant

What is a young male?

100

The number of years a newborn infant is expected in a country.

What is Life Expectancy?

100

This model measures a country's economic and social position by looking at the birth rate, death rate, life expectancy, and gender balance of a country.

What is a Demographic Transition Model?

200
This stage is characterized by a falling birth rate, a falling death rate, and population growth begins to slow. Examples are Mexico, Brazil, and India.

What is a Stage 3 country?

200

Niger has a high birth rate, high death rate, and a rising population. People would most likely not want to immigrate to this country.

What is a Stage 2 country?

200

This model is made up of 5 stages, each one corresponding to a country's economy

What is Rostow's Takeoff Model

200

This is the amount of people in a country who can read and write.

What is Literacy Rate?

200

This is the total domestic and foreign output claimed by a country's residents, calculated as GDP plus income earned by residents from overseas investments.

What is GNI?

300

This stage is characterized by a very high birth rate, a very high death rate, and a low population. There are no current examples.

What is a stage 1 country?

300

Croatia has a low birth rate, rising death rate, and an ageing population. People would want to immigrate to this country.

What is a Stage 5 Country?

300

This measures the value of goods produced within a country’s borders, usually within a time frame of one year.

What is GDP?

300

The amount of working age people compared to the amount of people who can't work.

What is the Dependency Ratio?

300

When someone is working in another country and sends money back home. This can affect the country their working in economically.

What is remittance?

400

This stage is characterized by a very high birth rate, death rates begin rapidly declining, and very high population growth. Examples would be Afghanistan, Yemen, and many Sub-Saharan African countries.

What is a stage 2 country?

400

Brazil has a dramatically lowering birth rate, a stabilizing death rate, and a steadily rising population. People may want to immigrate to this country.

What is a Stage 3 country

400

This is the most dominant industry in MDCs.

What is the service industry?

400

High amounts of _____ is generally a considered pull factor, as it shows many are welcomed and helps with innovation and social complexity.

What is diversity?

400

This is the measure of rights and freedoms that women receive, such as reproductive freedoms, women empowerment, and workforce participation.

What is the GII?

500

This stage is characterized by birth rates below death rates, leading to an aging and decreasing population. Examples would be Japan, Germany, and Italy.

What is a stage 5 Country?

500

South Africa has a lowering birth rate, a stable death rate, and a rising population. People might want to immigrate to this country.

What is a Stage 3 country?

500

This is the main contributor to poverty and goes either up or down based on the stage of the country.

What is unemployment?

500

A metric that shows Life Expectancy, Education, and GNI per Capita in a country.

What is the Human Development Index (HDI)?

500

The amount of children a woman could have in her lifetime, the amount of live births per 1,000 women aged 15-44. 

What is a Total Fertility Rate (TFR)?