Take a look at the graphic and complete the task. The chart gives information about marriage and children in a selection of countries. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The chart provides a comparison between
marriage
age and family size in 9 different countries
.
Generally, it can be observed that women
in Eastern countries
marry young and have more children
as compared to women
in Western countries
. In other words
, the age of the first marriage
is inversely related to the size of the family.
Among the Western countries
which included: the United States, Australia, Netherlands, United Kingdom, and Denmark, the United States had the youngest age of marriage
(28) and the largest family, with each woman having approximately 2.5 children
. In contrast
, Women
of the other countries
married around the ages of 31 and 32 and had only around 1.75 per female.
On the other hand
, among the eastern countries
, Kenyan women
, who married the youngest had the highest number of kids per marriage
, averaging around 3 children
per woman. Whereas
, women
from India, China, and Brazil, who had their first marriage
around the ages of 24 to 27, only gave birth to 2.5 to 1.5 children
per marriage
.Submitted by chanchaldubai1 on
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Vocabulary: Replace the words marriage, countries, women, children with synonyms.
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