Today we watched another video on demographic transition. We also sketched it into out notebooks. One thing I learned is that stage 5 really doesn't exist. It's just a theory of what will happen to the country. We have plenty of countries that have made it to the 4th stage but they haven't moved past it yet. There's a possibility it may happen in my lifetime. Right now the country is in stage 4, we are having less children than the previous stages we've been in. I believe stage 5 leads into a baby boom. Stage 1 starts off with a high birth rate and a high death rate, but a low population/NIR. If there is a baby boom in stage 5, it will give the demographic transition what it needs to be in stage 1. I don't know how the population will be low though. The very idea of stage 5 is crazy all by itself. It could lead to the fall of a country or the rise to newfound power. Whether it's good or bad, it will definitely change the way we see countries. if it leads to the fall of a country imagine if every country reached stage 5 one by one. Each country will reach it's peak and then crumble to nothing, then the people will have to start over as hunter and gatherers. Maybe that's how they run back into stage 1, stage 5 sets them up for failure for them to try again as hunters and gatherers. wack.

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