You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. 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. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make com-parisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words.

Depicted in the line graph is the

rate

of births among females in England over 47 years.

Overall

, there was a decline in two of the categories, an increase in one and the other remained unchanged. In 1973, the highest birth

rate

belonged to women in the 20-25 age group with 120,000;

however

,

this

steeply declined to approximately 22,000 by 2008 and slightly decreased again to 20,000 by 2020.

On the other hand

,

this

rate

for 28-34-year-old females grew by approximately 150% between 1973 and 1980, from 20,000 to around 50,000 and,

subsequently

increased to a final figure of 80,000 in 2020. The 40+ age group witnessed the lowest figure for all the categories over the years and from 1993 to 2008, it remained constant at about 8,000 before decreasing slightly by roughly 5% in 2020. There was only a slight change in the birth

rate

of women under 20 between 1973 and 2020;

however

, the rates for 1973 and 2020 were identical at 20,000.