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Demographic trend cont<strong>in</strong>ued…..<br />

2.Increased life expectancy – low mortality<br />

Crude death rate<br />

1945 - 21.9<br />

1971 - 7.7<br />

1995 - 5.8<br />

Life expectancy<br />

1920 1946 1953 1962 1967 1971 1981 1991 2001<br />

M<br />

F<br />

32.7<br />

30.7<br />

43.9<br />

41.6<br />

58.8<br />

57.5<br />

61.9<br />

61.4<br />

64.8<br />

66.9<br />

64.2<br />

67.1<br />

67.7<br />

72.1<br />

69.5<br />

74.2<br />

70.7<br />

75.4<br />

3.Improved health care<br />

4.Population migration

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