Final answer:
To determine the net population added per year in a country in the early stages of demographic transition with a crude birth rate of 35 and a crude death rate of 15 per 1,000 people, we subtract the death rate from the birth rate to get 20 per 1,000 people per year, which equals a 2.0% growth rate.
Step-by-step explanation:
In a country at the early stages of demographic transition, if the crude birth rate is 35 per 1,000 people per year and the crude death rate is 15 per 1,000 people per year, the net population growth rate would be the difference between these two figures.
To calculate the net people added to the population, we subtract the death rate from the birth rate: 35 (birth rate) - 15 (death rate) = 20 per 1,000 people per year. This represents the net number of individuals added to the population each year per 1,000 people.
To express this growth in percentage, we simply convert the per 1,000 figure to a percentage by dividing it by 10: 20 per 1,000 is equivalent to a 2.0% growth rate.