Mortality in the 19th
century didn't begin to decline because more people were born, but
because many less died at an early age, with the advent of new
agricultural technology and new transport, they brought food to almost
all populations. famines, declined greatly. New
technologies born in the Age of Industrialization also improved public
health, and birth rates leveled off, leaving so many children dying at
birth or after birth. Thus the population of the
world grew rapidly during the Industrial Revolution, and was called the
Mortality Revolution, directly linking the new era of technology with the low death rate.
