1. FACTORS AFFECTING THE FERTILITY RATE

2. What is the Fertility Rate? The average number of children borne by women during the whole of their child bearing years

3. FACTORS AFFECTING FERTILITY Demographic Economic Socio-cultural Political Environmental

4. DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS Age structure of the population Age of consent / marriage Socio-economic group

5. ECONOMIC FACTORS Poverty Development Perceived economic cost of children Perceived economic benefit of children

6. SOCIAL and CULTURAL FACTORS Religion and race Status symbol Infanticide Role of women in society Cultural behaviour / tradition Literacy

7. POLITICAL FACTORS Birth control policies Pro-natalist agreements encouraging population growth e.g. France Anti-natalist policies e.g. China

8. ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS Rural / urban Health IMR Quality of environment e.g. Water purity

9. 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)