Demography and the Birth Rate
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- Demography and the Birth Rate
- Demography
- Examines the factors affect the total size of the population.
- Birth rate - the number of live births per 1000, per year.
- Fertility rate - the number of live births per 1000 women aged 15-44.
- Death rate - the number of deaths per 1000, per year.
- Migration - the number of people coming in and out of a country.
- The population of the UK
- 2011 - 62 million
- There has been fewer deaths than births since 1901.
- Natural increase occurs when the number of births exceeds the number of deaths.
- The birth rate
- There has been a long term decline in the birth rate.
- Baby booms after both The First and The Second World Wars
- The fertility rate
- Declining fertility rate - fewer women are choosing to have fewer children.
- Emancipcation of women (Sue Sharpe, 1976, 1994)
- Legal Pay Act (1970)
- Dual earner families.
- Improved education
- Improved contraception and the easy access to abortion
- Women less likely to get married and have children.
- Emancipcation of women (Sue Sharpe, 1976, 1994)
- The infant mortality rate has fallen due to improved living standards, better healthcare and state welfare.
- Children are seen as an economic burden.
- No longer economic assets, now more financially dependent upon parents.
- Beck and Beck-Gernschein - individualization
- People no longer conform to traditional norms and values, but make their own desicions
- Declining fertility rate - fewer women are choosing to have fewer children.
- Demography
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