Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Births
- Birth rate - the number of
live births per 1,000 of the
population per year
- Fertility rate -
the average
number of
children a
women will have
during her fertile
years
- Fertility
rate is
declining
- Average age to have
children is now 30
- Fertility rates for
30s and 40s are
increasing
- Reasons for
decline in birth rate
- Changes in
position of women
- Pursuing
careers
- Decline in infant
mortality rate
- Parents no
longer need to
'replace'
children
- Children have
become an economic
liability
- They are units of
consumption and
have ''pester power'
- No longer
an
economic
asset -
they are
expensive
- Laws
banning
child labour
- Compulsory
schooling
- Child centredness
- Socially constructed 'golden
age' - childhood is now about
'quality' not 'quantity'
- Infant mortality rate - the
number of infant who die
before their first birthday, per
thousand babies born alive,
per year
- IIMR is declining
because of
- Improved
housing and
better
sanitation
- Better health
and nutrition
- Improved
services for
babies and
mothers
- Effects of
changing
fertility
- Smaller families
may lead to
more dual
earner couples
- Fall in number of
children reduces the
'burden of dependency'
on working population
- Public services and
policies affected
(schools etc)
- Based on politics - gov
may decide to have smaller
class sizes
- Dependency ratio - the
relationship between the size
of the working part of the
population and the size of the
non-working, dependent part
- 4.2 deaths
per 1,000 live
births in 2011