IB ESS SL 8.1.8 Demographic transition model Question Bank
Practise IB ESS SL/HL 8.1.8 by applying demographic transition model concepts to exam-style environmental systems questions.
- Syllabus
- First assessment 2026
- Course
- ESS SL
- Level
- SL
Practise IB ESS SL/HL 8.1.8 by applying demographic transition model concepts to exam-style environmental systems questions.

Figure Crude birth rate, crude death rate, total population (1960-2024) and predicted total population (2025-2100) for South Korea
Explain which stage of the demographic transition model South Korea was in during 1980.
Stage three (Late expanding);
Birth rates are falling (rapidly) and the death rates are falling/start stabilizing / CBR is still higher than CDR / NIR is relatively high, but decreasing;
Note to examiners: If stage is vague (3/4), unnamed or just wrong, there is no credit available for explanation (it is not clear what is being explained).