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The table below presents the number of children ever born to women aged 40-44 years in Australia for each year the information was collected since 1981. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The table below presents the number of children ever born to women aged 40-44 years in Australia for each year the information was collected since 1981. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
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The table illustrates how many
children
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 were
birth
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 to Australian
women
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 who reached the age
from
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of
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 40 to 44 in
four
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 time periods (1981,1086,1996,2006).
Overall
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, the
percentage
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 of having none, one child, and two
children
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 increased,
while
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 the
percentage
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 of giving
birth
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 to three,
four
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children
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 or more decreased. Interestingly, the trend towards giving
birth
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 to two
children
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 ranked the highest over the
period
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. As the data clearly indicates, in the first
period
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, the
women
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 who gave
birth
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 to one child
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 the lowest
percentage
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 at 7.6;
similarly
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, the
women
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 who did not have any
children
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was
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were
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 the second lowest at 8.5. As the data shows, in
following
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the following
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 years, the trend towards having one kid and none grew steadily as they reached 11.3 and 12.8, respectively. By the end of the
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period
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period,
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 the former categories almost doubled from 7.6 to 13.2 for the former, and 8.5 to 15,9 for the latter.
Likewise
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, the category of two
children
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 born to
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a female
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female
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females
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who
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apply
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aged
to
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apply
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40 and above had the highest
percentage
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overall
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,
recorded
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and recorded
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 a noticeable growth as it surged from 29 to 35.6, it settled at almost 38
percent
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per cent
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 in the
last
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period
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. Moving
to
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the categories that fell over the
period
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 were the
birth
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 rates of three
children
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,
four
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children
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 and more, as in 1981 the average was about 27. After five years the
birth
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 rate of more than
four
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children
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 decreased to
the
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apply
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half,
while
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 the other was almost at the same
percentage
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. Despite
of
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recording almost the same percentages in the first appearance on the table, they concluded differently, the
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women
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number of women
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 who birthed
four
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 or more fell dramatically to 11
percent
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per cent
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,
,
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apply
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and the
birth
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 of three
children
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 settled at 21.5.

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Sentences: Add more complex sentences.
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Linking words: Don't use the same linking words: "overall, while".
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Common mistake: Your writing should be 150-250 words.
Vocabulary: Replace the words children, birth, women, four, percentage, period with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "table" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "data" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "percentage" was used 6 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "trend" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "decreased" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "fell" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "reached" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "almost" was used 4 times.
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