Since 1999 the rate of women aged 40–44 giving birth has almost doubled
One-quarter of Australian women giving birth are aged 35 or over, with 29% of those being first-time mothers.
The number of babies born to older mothers has been increasing over time, data published by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare on Thursday shows. The latest data, from 2019, shows there were more than 76,000 babies born to mothers aged 35 or over, compared with almost 69,000 in 2009, and 42,000 in 1999.
Since 1999 the rate of women aged 40–44 giving birth has almost doubled, with 15.5 mothers per 1,000 in 2019 compared with 8.4 mothers per 1,000 women in 1999. The rate almost quadrupled among women 45–49, with 1.1 mothers per 1,000 women in 2019 compared with 0.3 mothers in 1999.
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