High mortality rate

Some developing countries with rapidly growing populations are headed for population stability in a matter of years, not because of falling birth rates, but because of rapidly rising death rates.

1. Inequality in mortality rates
2. Death of living creatures

1. Declining life span

1. Nuclear war
2. Massacres
3. Irredeemably disadvantaged regions
4. Infant mortality
5. Inadequate housing among indigenous peoples
6. Famine
7. Epidemics
8. Disasters
9. Demographic fatigue

1. Excessive human fertility
2. Decrease in mortality rate

1. Mortality
2. Immortality
3. High-spiritedness
4. High-mindedness