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A. Italy’s practice of punishing couples who have two or more children.
B. china’s practice of fining a woman who is pregnant with a second child 20 per cent of her pay if she refuses to have an abortion.
C. France’s elimination of tax deductions for families with more than two children.
D. Brazil’s refusal to grant a divorce to couples with children

A. the first stage
B. the second stage
C. the third stage
D. the first and third stage

A. human populations tend to increase more slowly than their ability to increase the food supply.
B. agricultural production increases in a geometric fashion.
C. people could use “moral restraint” to reduce the birth rate.
D. famine war and pestilence are social problems that a population can overcome.

A. immigration and emigration rates.
B. births and deaths
C. fertility and fecundity
D. none of the above

A. crude death rate
B. age-specific death rate
C. infant mortality rate
D. targeted mortality rate

A. Demography
B. Ecology
C. Popology
D. Stratification

A. High birth rate and low death rate in its first phase
B. High death rate and low birth rate in its first phase
C. High birth rate and high death rate in its first phase
D. None of these

A. apartheid
B. ethnic cleansing
C. multiculturalism
D. assimilation

A. Malthusianism
B. demography
C. forecasting
D. official statistics

A. risen from 56 to 67 years
B. fallen from 50 to 47 years
C. risen from 50 to 61 years
D. fallen from 54 to 50 years