the graph below compares changes in the birth rates of china and the usa between 1920 and 2000.

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rates during the period from 1920 to 2000. It is evident that both nations saw considerable fluctuations in fertility, with lows during the 1940s and highs during the 1950s. Increasing from approximately 10

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in 1920 to 15

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in 1935, China’s

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plunged to a low of just 5

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in the 1940s.

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was followed by a period of exponential growth, with fertility in the country reaching a peak of 20

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in 1950. The latter half of the century,

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, brought a sustained decline in

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figure. The US

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rate, meanwhile, fluctuated at somewhere between 11 and 13

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prior to 1940, before dropping sharply to less than 5

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in 1945. The following 5 years saw a rapid climb in

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rate, to somewhere in the vicinity of 15

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in 1950, followed by a steady fall. It is interesting to note that

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rates of both countries were comparable until 1950, the gap between the two widened

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time as fertility in China slid away.