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Life Expectancy:  [|Life Expectancy Graph] The graph above shows the Life Expectancy at birth of people living in France. The graph was last revised in 2008 at the Life Expectancy of 81.5 years old and now in 2010, the Life Expectancy at birth is estimated at 80 years and 7 months old. The estimated Life Expectancy at 2009 of Men and Female is: **Male:** 77.79 years and **Female:** 84.33 years

=Total Fertility Rate: ﻿ =

[|Total Fertility Rate Graph] From looking at this graph, you can see that in 2008, the Total Fertility Rate of France (TFR) was 2 children for every woman. You are also able to see how the graph shows a sharp decrease from 1960-1975 and from 1975-2008, the TFR is pretty steady.

=Contraceptive use: =  The graph above shows the contraceptive use in all U.S, France, Netherlands, Spain and United Kingdom within different years.

In 2010, in France, an estimated 79% of married women use contraception (all methods) and 76% of married women use only modern methods of contraception. These women range from ages 15-48.


 * Oral contraceptive use grows steadily in France
 * 40% (2044) use pill alone or combined with another method compared with 34% in 1998 and 28% in 1978.
 * Condoms are used regularly yet not as common.
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Male and Female sterilizations still run rare.
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">30 years after contraceptives became legal in France, effective methods became easily available and widely used.
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Fun fact: Contraceptive advertisements in France are still prohibited, yet people are still able to speak freely about the subject.

=<span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Position in Demographic Transition Model: = <span style="display: block; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> <span style="display: block; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">As shown above, you are able to see that France is located in stage Four of the DTM (Demographic Transition Model). This means that the death rate remains steady while the birth rate is continuing to decrease.

= Crude Birth/Death Rates: =

Table of Crude Birth/Death Rate in France

<span style="display: block; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">In the above table, it is obvious that France's crude birth rate is generally stable, never increasing above 15% and also never <span style="display: block; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">decreasing below 12% until the year 2007. Its crude death rate is stable as well, and during this period of time between 1975 and 2007, it generally remained within the boundaries of 9% and 10.5%.
 * Year || 1975 || 1980 || 1985 || 1990 || 2005 || 2006 || 2007 ||
 * CBR (%) || 14.1 || 14.8 || 13.9 || 13.5 || 12.2 || 12 || 11.9 ||
 * CDR (%) || 10.6 || 10.2 || 10.1 || 9.3 || 9.1 || 9.1 || 9.2 ||

<span style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> <span style="display: block; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">This graph shows France's crude birth and death rates at an earlier period of time: between 1905 and 1930, and also compares its crude birth and death rates to two other European countries, Italy and Germany. Unlike its crude birth rate in later years, France's CBR from 1905 until about 1915 is generally stable at 20/1000. Then, in 1915, there is a sudden decline in births, which gradually increases from 1915 to about 1920, and then increases rapidly then becomes generally stable up until 1930. France's crude death rate, on the other hand, generally keeps within the boundaries of about 22.5/1000 and 15/1000, but constantly increases and decreases sharply, rarely staying very stable for long.

=** Infant Mortality Rate: **= <span style="font-size: 110%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; marginbottom: 10pt; marginleft: 0in; marginright: 0in; margintop: 0in;">This graph focuses on France’s infant mortality rate from 1740 to its predicted IMR in 2020 and gives reasons behind sudden rises and falls in the IMR. Generally, in the 1700s, it was very high (nearly 300/1000), and then decreased near the 1800s to about 200/1000. From then on, it constantly increased and decreased sharply, but at the same time slowly declined until it reached nearly 100/1000 in 1945.

Compared to other countries, France’s infant mortality rate was very low in 2005. Its IMR of 6.3% is the 16th lowest on this graph that includes many MEDCs.

=** Maternal Mortality Rate: **= ==  The whole of Europe has a low MMR (less than 100/100,000), as do many other MEDCs like it, such as North America. <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">At 8/100,000, France’s maternal mortality rate is especially low in this graph that includes both MEDCs and LEDCs' maternal mortality rates in 2005.