Changes to the demographic transition model
As with many other A country that has well-developed financial markets, rapidly growing service sectors and diverse economic structures. the UK's population has gone through the demographic transition model.
The UK's population rapidly rose between 1760 and 1880 as death rates fell due to better sanitation and food supplies whilst birth rates remained high (Stage 1). There was then slower growth up to 1940 as death rates continued to drop due to medical advances but birth rates dropped rapidly due to the use of birth control and the When a country's economy moves from being based on farming to being based on industry. of the country (Stage 3). By 1940 the UK entered stage 4, the low fluctuating stage.