demographic trends

• EXP FOR BIRTH AND FERTILITY RATES

  changing position of women

  changing social attitudes

  increased cost of raising children

  falling infant morality
• EFFECT OF FERTILITY AND BIRTH RATES ON FAMILY STRUCTURE

  increase in one person and two households

  increase in beanpole family

  children may feel lonely due to less children however increase in childcentredness
• EXP FOR DEATH RATE AND LIFE EXPECTANCY

  medical advances

  improving living standards and nutrition

  public health benefits

  improved maternity care
• EVALUATION

  death rates are not consistently low but mainly in deprived areas

  the past years there is rise in death rates and fall in life expectancy mainly due to austerity and NHS cuts to vital service
• death rate is the amount of death per year - declined recently
• life expectancy is the average years a person expects to live - people are living longer
• birth rate is the number of births per year - increasingly low in UK = low fertility rates
• fertility rates are an average number of children women of childbearing have - decreased