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Junior Cycle Geography: Population and the DTM

How often Population and the DTM comes up on the Geography papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.

CL Asked on 4 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2026. most years

Population and the DTM, Common Level(8 marks)

Quick ones on Population and the DTM.

(a)Birth rate 14 and death rate 6 per 1,000. What is the natural increase?
  1. 20 per 1,000
  2. 8 per 1,000
  3. 8%
(b)In Stage 1 of the demographic transition model, birth and death rates are?
  1. High birth, low death
  2. Both low
  3. Both high
(c)Why does population grow fast in Stage 2 of the DTM?
  1. Death rate falls but birth rate stays high
  2. Both rates fall to a low level
  3. Birth and death rates both rise very quickly
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(a) 8 per 1,000

(b) Both high

(c) Death rate falls but birth rate stays high

Your turn: Common Level questions on Population and the DTM.

Common Level

Asked on 4 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2026. most years

Every paper, year by year

YearWhere it came up
2026Q6A, Q6C
2025Not asked
2024Q7B, Q9A, Q9B, Q9C
2023Q3A, Q3B, Q4A
2022Q4A, Q4B

Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.

More Population and the DTM questions

Population and the DTM, 2 marks

Which of these LOWERS the death rate in a country?

  1. War and famine
  2. Overcrowded slum housing
  3. Vaccines and clean water
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Vaccines and clean water

Vaccines prevent diseases like measles and clean water stops cholera. Improvements like these caused death rates to fall in Stage 2 of the DTM.

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