The graph below compares changes in the birth rate of china and the usa betwwen 1920 and 2000.

The graph below compares changes in the birth rate of china and the usa betwwen 1920 and 2000.
A glance at the graph provided reveals some striking similarities between
China
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and US fertility rates during the period from 1920 to 2000. It is apparent from the information supplied that both countries had some fluctuations
as well as
a significant decrease during the 1940s and the highest point in the 1950s. Increasing from approximately 10
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in 1920 to 15
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in 1935, China's birth rate plunged to 5 and maintained the same level in the 1940s. In the following five years, the figure had an exponential growth to 20
percent
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.
Then
it saw a sustained decline in the next 50 years to under 5
percent
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. The US birth rate fluctuated at around 11 and 13
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till 1940, before it experienced a sharp decrease to less than 5
percent
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in 1940.
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was followed by a
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figure and reached a peak of 15
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,
then
it saw a sustained decline in the latter half of the century.
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  • birth rate
  • demographic data
  • trend
  • fluctuate
  • One-Child Policy
  • Great Depression
  • Baby Boom
  • fertility rate
  • economic development
  • population control
  • statistical analysis
  • life expectancy
  • decade
  • millennium
  • contraception
  • data interpretation
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