The chart below gives information about birth and death rates in Switzerland from 1970 to 2020 according to United Nations statistics. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart given illustrates information about birth and death rates in Switzerland that have been made by United Nations statistics over a fifty-year period. From an

overall

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perspective, it is evident that the rate of birth saw an upward trend,

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a fluctuating downward trend can be seen in the figure for death over the years shown. In the final year, the rate of newborn babies was highest, at 3.2

million

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, meanwhile, that of the dead was lowest, at 0.8

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.

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, at the beginning of the period, the number of newborn children remained the same in the next ten years, at 1.2

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. Afterwards, it grew sharply to 3

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in 2015 before reaching a peak of 3.2

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in the

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year.

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, the data on citizens who passed away underwent a slight increase from 1

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in 1975 to 1.3

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in 1985.

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, after rising to the top of 1.5

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in 1995, it significantly fell to 0.8

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at the end

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of the period.