What is birth rate? According to wikipedia, ' The birth rate is typically the rate of births in a population over time. The rate of births in a population is calculated in several ways: live births from a universal registration system for births, deaths, and marriages; population counts from a census, and estimation through specialized demographic techniques.'
Factors affecting birth rate as follow:
1. Government policy: Government policy affect birth rate, for example is pronatalist or antinatalist ( tax on childlessness).
2. Availability of family planning such like, birth control and sex education among the communities.
3. Safety abortion and safety child birth in the community.
4. Illiteracy and unemployment factors can affect birth rate.
5. High poverty level within the nation can affect birth rate.
6. Long term economic difficulty can affect birth rate, because married couple that is facing financial problem tend to delay child bearing for some reason.
7. Religious and social belief can affecting birth rate, in term of abortion and contraception.
References:
www.wikipedia.com
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