Category: Demography
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The consequences of an ageing population mind map
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Explaining the long term decrease in the death rate
Explaining the long term decrease in the death rate What are the Trends? The death rate has halved in the last century, declining from 19/1000 to 10/1000 today. In the first part of the century,most of this decrease was due to fewer children dying of infectious diseases, later on in the century, the continued decline…
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Explaining changes to the birth rate
Economic changes, technological chances, changing gender roles, postmodernisation and changes to the position of children all help explain why the birth rate and total fertility rates in England and Wales have halved over the last 100 years. This post explores why. It has primarily been written for students studying the families and households topic on…
