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What is birth rate?
The number of live births per 1000 of the population over a year.
What is fertility rate?
The number of live births per 1000 women, aged 15-44 over a year.
What is the total fertility rate?
The average number of children women will have during their fertile years.
What are the trends in fertility rates?
UK fertility and total fertility rates have both generally declined.
Have fluctuated during baby booms and are recently experiencing an increase.
In 1900, the fertility rate was 115 live births per 1000 women aged 15-44, compared with only 63.6 in 2009. This figure has been on the rise over the last decade as in 2001 the fertility rate stood at 54.5.
In 2008, total fertility rate reached 1.96 per woman, but this has since declined to 1.83 in 2014.
Recent rise could be explained by a rise in immigrant families in the UK, who tend to marry younger and therefore have longer periods of fertility and larger families.
What about the birth rate trends?
The UK population has grown from 38 million in 1901 to 64 million in 2014.
The trend has shown:
A general decline since 1900 – the birth rate was 28.7 births per 1000 in 1900 compared to 12.2 births per 1000 in 2014.
Fluctuations during the ‘baby booms’ after the First and Second World Wars, in the 1950/60s and late 1980s.
Since 2001, the birth rate has slightly risen again, reaching its highest rate since 1971 in 2012.
What about live births: UK 1900-2014?
