This is proven since in 1900 the IMR in the UK was 154 and by 2007 it had sharply declined to 5, owing to many factors including improved housing and better sanitation. So infant mortality rates decreasing has caused birth rate to decrease and therefore also decreasing family size. A final reason is the idea that children have become an economic liability. This is due to two many reasons, the first being laws
Today, immigration has shown inflation in religious diversity, although, there has been a considerably noticeable drop in traditional Christianity e.g. Anglican, and a rise in the less traditional Christian churches and non religions. The reason for decline can be based on the aging population, low birth rate, denominational switching, and the upshot of no religion. In the 1960’s the disorganisation of political and cultural mayhem saw growth of New Age Religions and Secularism. What is New Age Religion?
In 1966, Bryan Wilson defined secularisation as 'the process whereby religious beliefs, practices and institutions lose social significance'. For example, church attendance in England and Wales had fallen from 40% of the population in the mid 19th Century to 6.3% in 2005. Church weddings are down to 1/3 from 3/5 in the 1970’s, baptisms and Sunday school attendance had also declined, leading Wilson to conclude that Britain had become a secular society. Similarly, in his study of America, Wilson found that 45% attended church on Sundays in 1962, with this having declined since. However, Bruce claimed that America was a secular society not because people had abandoned the church but because the church had become very superficial, thus secularisation occurred as a result of the American way of Life declining too, for instance with it no longer seeming as disrespectful to miss church on a Sunday.
According to Kozol, one of the main causes of homelessness in the 1980s was the vast reduction in affordable housing. Kozol explains that “gentrification,” the transformation of a low-rent neighborhood to a more prestigious one, raised rents and pushed the poor into homelessness (433). He states, “Half a million units of low-income housing are lost each year to condominium conversion as well as to arson, demolition, or abandonment” and that rent for lower-income individuals increased more than 30 percent since 1980 (433). Additionally, Kozol claims that almost half of low-income “SRO (single-room occupancy) units” were “replaced by luxury apartments and office buildings between 1970 and 1980” (435). In addition to the reduction in low-income housing, Kozol also argues that there was a severe shortage of employment positions that paid a living wage.
Tribal warfare was common and before white settlement this accounted for the biggest non-natural cause of death amongst Aboriginal men. The effects of the British occupation of this land would be devastating to the Indigenous Australians. Most significantly without having been subjected to the English diseases, a smallpox epidemic would wipe out approximately 70% of the Aboriginal population of Sydney and as it spread beyond the colony, continued to have devastating effects on the native population. Diseases along with significant dispossession from the land and massacres would be responsible for reducing the population of indigenous people in New South Wales by an estimated 90% by the 1900s. Today Aboriginal Australians account for 2.2% of the New South Wales population and almost 30% of the total indigenous population of Australia.
The evidence supporting the class dealignment thesis may be seen in the fall if the majority voting for their natural class. For instance, the percentage not voting for their natural class increased from 44% in 1987 to 64% in 1996. Moreover, in 1997, 61% of the DE social class voted for Labour whereas in 2001 it had decreased to 50%, therefore demonstrating that class dealignment shows a weakening relationship between social class and party support. In the mid 1960's, B voters supporting Conservative and C1 and 2 voters supporting Labour accounted for 64% of the total vote. But the 1970's saw a decline in the number of people voting according to their natural class.
Diabetes-related death rates are steadily decreasing In 2007, nearly 7,500 Australians died from diabetes and causes related to diabetes. This is 5.4% of all deaths in that year. Between 1997 and 2007, deaths from diabetes-related causes dropped by 16%, from 39 to 32 deaths per 100,000 population, taking into account differences in age structure over time (Figure 1). Figure 1: Diabetes-related deaths, 1997–2007 Notes 1. Directly age-standardised to the 2001 Australian population.
Catholic Affiliations There was a dramatic change in Religious Affiliation numbers over the years; this is clearly shown when we compare figures from 1901 to 2001. During 1901 there were very few eastern religions while 40% of people were Anglican. When those figures are compared to 2001 statistics, there was a rise in eastern religions and Anglicans decreasing to 18%. The only rise was in Catholic figures. The change of figures was due to the immigration caused by World War II and the Vietnam War.
In 1900, the death rate was 19, however, in 2007, it stood at 10. N.L Tranter argues it in 1996 that over 75% of the decline in the death rate from 1850-1970 was because of a decline in the number of people dying from infectious diseases. These diseases include diphtheria, influenza, scarlet fever, measles, smallpox, diarrhoea, typhoid and tuberculosis. Most of the decline of deaths caused by these diseases was among the younger generation, which was because these diseases were most common within the young. However, the infectious diseases had been replaced in the 1950s by ‘diseases of affluence’ which were illnesses such as heart disease and cancers, which were the main cause of death.
Statistics state that the trade value of the U.S music market decreased 10.7% in 2009 due to the up rise in piracy. (IFPI Report) 1. In the 2011 IFPI report, under section 14 “Digital Piracy- Facts and Trends” it is stated, “Despite the surge by more than 1000% in the digital music market from 2004-2010, an estimated value of $4.6 billion, global recorded music revenues declined by 31% over the same period. The two figures powerfully illustrate how, in the face of piracy, even the most progressive strategy of licensing hundreds of digital music services has been unable to prevent the steady decline in the overall legitimate music market and that decline will continue unless action is taken.” B. The same database continues to give statistics about how there has been a steady decline in profits through album release and