The bar chart illustrates shifts in the fertility rates of females in six different Gulf countries, namely Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, S. Arabia and UAE between 1990 and 2000. Overall, several trends are apparent here. Firstly, there were emerging falls in the birth rates in all these countries over the period. Secondly, despite these drops, Oman and S. Arabia remained populous with the highest fertility rates.
To begin with, standing at the peak of 7 births per woman, Oman witnessed a bit sudden decrease of around 2.5 by 2000. Similarly, the figure for S. Arabia had a following decline from nearly 7 to roughly 2.5 births per woman.
Compared to other nations, Qatar and UAE had the same number of births in 1990, with about 4 births per female; however, by the year 2000, the birth rate in UAE had quickly slumped faster than that in Qatar. Like the nations mentioned above, the vicinity of 3.5 represented the birth rates in both Bahrain and Kuwait. Until 2000, women in Kuwait had given birth to more children than those in Bahrain, representing around 3.8 births.