The general fertility rate fell between 1964 and 2000 because of_______________?

A. errors in the measurement of birth rates and production of statistics

B. increases in the age of marriage and the age at which childbearing begins

C. the risk diseases caused by poverty poor housing and bad sanitation

D. there being fewer women of childbearing age than there were in the first half of the century

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