Why did the general fertility rate fall between 1964 and 2000?

1. A Option A: The risk diseases caused by poverty poor housing and bad sanitation
2. B Option B: Errors in the measurement of birth rates and production of statistics
3. C Option C: There being fewer women of childbearing age than there were in the first half of the century
4. D Option D: Increases in the age of marriage and the age at which childbearing begins

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