Band 5+: The chart below shows the changes in UK's birth rate for women in six different age groups from 1973 to 2008. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The line graph delineates the changes in women’s birth rate in the UK in different age groups between 1973 and 2008.

Overall, the figures for all age groups experienced decline except that for women aged 30-35 and 35-39 increased from 1973 to 2003. Additionally, women in from 25 to 29 years old had highest rate of birth during the period.

At the start of period, the birth rate for female aged 25 to 29 included 140 people, 15 people higher than that for people in 20 to 25 years old. Meanwhile, there was 70 and 60 people of 30-35 and under 20 age group give birth, respectively. Moreover, the figure for women aged in 35-39 stand at 40 people, 2 times as high as that for people in 40 years old and over.

After that, the rate of birth for female of 25 – 29 age group witnessed a fluctuation between 130 people and stand at 120 people in 2008. In addition, there were gradual decline in the birth rate of people aged in 20 – 25 and under 20 years old, with around 90 and 40 people, respectively. In contrast, the figure for women from 30 to 39 years old increased, to 85 people aged 30-35 years old and 65 people aged 35-39 years old in 2008. In the last place during the period was people aged 40 years old and over, and the birth rate for this age group decreased slightly of around 10 people in 2008.