The chart and table below show the average number of children born to one woman and the average age of women when they had their first child in two countries between 1920 and 2019. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words.

The line graph illustrates how many

children

women had on average in the

UK

and

Kazakhstan

from 1920 to 2019,

while

the table provides a woman’s average

age

of first-time motherhood for the same

countries

and time period. Over time, a general trend of deferring childbearing to a later

age

and having fewer

children

overall

can be observed in both

countries

,

although

women in

Kazakhstan

had their first child earlier and had more

children

than their

UK

counterparts. In 1920, the average British woman gave birth to approximately two

children

,

while

the Kazakhstani average was around 3.5. In both

countries

, the birth rate continued to increase until the 1960s, at which point it peaked at around 2.7 and 4.5

children

per woman respectively. Between 1960 and 2019, the numbers generally declined, with the end of the period displaying a rate of approximately 1.8

children

per woman in the

UK

and 3.0 in

Kazakhstan

. In terms of women’s

age

at first childbirth, females in

Kazakhstan

preceded those in Britain by about one to four years across all time periods. The average

age

of giving birth to the first child increased slightly in both

countries

, from 26.5 in the

UK

and 23.5 in

Kazakhstan

in 1920 to 28.9 and 27.6 in 2019 respectively.