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FACTORS AFFECTING THE FERTILITY RATE
What is the Fertility Rate?
• The average number of children borne by women during the whole of their child bearing years
FACTORS AFFECTING FERTILITY
Demographic Economic
Socio-cultural
Political
Environmental
DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS
• Age structure of the population• Age of consent / marriage• Socio-economic group
ECONOMIC FACTORS
• Poverty• Development• Perceived economic cost of children• Perceived economic benefit of
children
SOCIAL and CULTURAL FACTORS
• Religion and race• Status symbol• Infanticide• Role of women in society• Cultural behaviour / tradition• Literacy
POLITICAL FACTORS
• Birth control policies• Pro-natalist agreements encouraging
population growth e.g. France• Anti-natalist policies e.g. China
ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS
• Rural / urban• Health• IMR• Quality of environment e.g. Water
purity
SUMMARY• It is impossible to separate the 5 factors of fertility• They all overlap
• KQ 1.6 – looks at the demographic challenges facing countries.• But we can also link these case studies to KQ 1.2 :• Think about how the demographic, social, economic and
political factors can cause population change: • Case Studies• France – pro natalist (read newspaper clipping)• China – One Child Policy (later )• UK – cost of raising children (newspaper clipping)