The line graph shows the birth rate, population growth rate and death rate from 1940 until 2020 in Scotland. The three different variables are measured in percentages

The line chart illustrates the percentage of Scottish fertility, demographic growth and mortality across the period of 1940 to 2020.

Overall

, it is evident that all rates exhibited a downward trend. Focusing on the Scottish birth

rate

,

it

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started as the highest

rate

at 2.5% and continued to reduce significantly to be surpassed by the death

rate

at roughly 0.5% in the late 2010s, before a slight drop until 2020.

Similarly

, the percentage of mortality in Scotland stood at around 1.5%,

then

declined moderately to just below 0.5% in the following two decades.

Following

this

, it experienced a slight fluctuation within the range of 0.3% to 0.7% throughout the remaining years. Turning to the growth

rate

of population in Scotland, the figure began at below 1%, before reaching the tough of approximately 0.5% in 1945. After that, it turned to outweigh the

rate

of death at 1% in the year 1950 and climbed to peak at 1.5% five years later.

Next,

the

rate

continued to decrease to fall under the mortality

rate

at about 3% in 1990, before hitting 0 in the early 2000s until 2020.