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The mean age at childbearing indicates the age of a woman at their childbearing events, if women were subject throughout their lives to the age-specific fertility rates observed in that given year. [1] In countries with very high fertility rates women can have their first child at a much younger age than the mean age at childbearing.
In the US, the average age at which women bore their first child advanced from 21.4 years old in 1970 [11] to 26.9 in 2018. [4]The German Federal Institute for Population Research claimed in 2015 the percentage for women with an age of at least 35 giving birth to a child was 25.9%.
Those giving birth in 2022 averaged older than 29, and those having their first child weren't far behind at about 27 years old. That's up five and six years, respectively, from 1970, according to ...
The average age of a girl's first period is 12 to 13 (12.5 years in the United States, [6] 12.72 in Canada, [7] 12.9 in the UK [8]) but, in postmenarchal girls, about 80% of the cycles are anovulatory in the first year after menarche, which declines to 50% in the third year, and to 10% by the sixth. [9]
In Europe, the average childbearing age has been rising continuously for some time. In Western, Northern, and Southern Europe, first-time mothers are on average 26 to 29 years old, up from 23 to 25 years at the start of the 1970s. In a number of European countries (Spain), the mean age of women at first childbirth has crossed the 30-year threshold.
According to Eurostat's latest data, Spain had the second-highest average age of women at childbirth in Europe in 2022, at 32.6 years, as well as the second-oldest average age for first-time ...
In 2016, the average age at first marriage was 24.8 for women and 26.9 for men. [6] Nuclear families are declining, while one-person households and, in rural areas, linear family structures increase. [5] Social discourse over the 20th century initially called to “destroy the family unit” in order to encourage gender parity. [7]
But despite the challenges of child-rearing being amplified, and the average age of first-time parents in the U.S. steadily rising, society is still sending the message that to wait to have kids ...