The chart below gives information on the birth rate among women in England, from 1973 to 2020. The figures are measured in births per 1000 women.

The given line chart illustrates the figure for births per 1000 English females in four categories from under 20 to 40+ over a period of 47 years since 1973.

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,

while

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the birth rate for women aged 20 - 25 declined significantly, the rate for those aged 28 - 34 grew gradually.

In addition

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, other groups do not have significant changes. As can be seen, the number of females aged under 20 who gave birth stood roughly the same at 20 between 1973 and 2020. In 1973, the number of females aged 20 - 25 was 120, from

this

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year until 2008,

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figure declined sharply to just over 20, after which it decreased minimally to 20 in 2020.

Whereas

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the amount for people aged 28-34 was as much as young women aged under 20 in

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year, in the subsequent years the number for them increased dramatically to nearly 50

then

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reached 80

at the end

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of the period.

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, there was a marginal fall in the rate for those aged 40+ from approximately 10 to just over 0 over the entire period.