The graph below gives information about changes in the birth and death rates in New Zealand between 1901 and 2101. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The graph illustrates patterns in the birth and death

rates

in New Zealand between 1901 and 2101.

Overall

, the birth

rates

have outnumbered the death

rates

but are expected to be taken over in around 2040. After the turnover,

while

the number of births is projected to continue to drop, deaths are anticipated to remain relatively stable after slight growth. In 1901, new births began at 20,000 and continued to increase, peaking at around 65,000 in 1961, albeit with ups and downs during the 60 years. After fluctuations over the next five decades by 2021, the trend is predicted to settle into a decline for the next eighty years, reaching approximately 45,000 births in 2101.

Conversely

, the number of deaths has continued to grow from roughly 9,000 to 35,000 for the

last

120 years.

This

upward trend is estimated to continue and intersect with the declining trajectory of the birth

rates

in 2040, at around 50,000. From 2061 onwards,

however

, deaths are expected to flatline at nearly 60,000.