The charts below show the main reasons for study among students of different age groups and the amount of support they received from employers. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

A glance at the graph provided shows striking similarities between the Chinese and US

birth

rates during the period from 1920 to 2000. It is evident that both nations saw considerable fluctuations with highs during the 1950s and lows during the 1940s. Increasing from approximately 10

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in 1920 to 15

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in 1915, China’s

birth

rate

then

plunged to a low of just 5

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in

1940s

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.

This

was followed by a period of exponential growth, with fertility in the country reaching a peak of 20

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in 1950. The latter half of the graph,

however

, brought a sustained decline in

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figure. The US

birth

rate, meanwhile, fluctuated at somewhere between 11 and 13

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prior to 1940, before dropping sharply to less than 5

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in 1945. The following 5 years saw a rapid climb to somewhere

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the vicinity of 15

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in 1950, followed by a steady fall. It is interesting to note that

while

birth

rates in both countries were comparable until 1950, the gap between the two widened

after

this

time as fertility in China slid away.