Women have their first child older than ever, according to new data that suggests that it could see further American fertility percentage.
A new CDC report that analyzed births from 2016 to 2023 showed that the average age of first mothers increased almost a year – from 26.6 years old in 2016 to 27.5 years old in 2023.
Similar increases were also observed in women with their second and third children, with the average age at birth with a year for the second births and only a year for a year for births on the third and higher order.
Maternal age has been increasing for decades, because the fertility percentage in the US fails – after he has been poured to another new low in 2023, with fewer women than at any time in history that children have.
The rate was 54.5 births per 1,000 women of fertile age (15 to 44 years old) last year, a three percent decrease compared to 56 in 2022.
The number of babies born in the US also fell on an annual basis, with just under 3.6 million living births.
Dr. Jamie Grifo, program director of the New York University Langone Fertility Center, told Dailymail.com: ‘We are lower than zero population growth in the US and have been for years.
“I think there will be a social factor. There will be many problems arising from the lack of reproduction. ‘
A new study that reflects 100 percent of the births from 2016 to 2023 showed that the average age of first mothers increased by almost a year from 26.6 in 2016 to 27.5 in 2023 in 2023
The number of first births at the age of 30 and parent also grew by almost 13 percent for mothers from 30 to 34 (from 22.3 percent to around 25 percent) and 25 percent for mothers aged 35 and older (from 10 to 12.5 percent) from 2016 to 2023
The most recent CDC data showed that in 2023 the total fertility percentage fell to 1.62 births per woman, the lowest since the government started following the metric in the 1930s.
Experts say that by 2050 the US is on its way to a so -called ‘under population crisis’, when too few people are born to support the current economic system.
An earlier report from the National Vital Statistics showed that from 1970 to 2000 the average age of mothers in the US increased by 2.6 years, with the most important increase in the first mothers – from 21.4 in 1970 to 25 in 2000.
The number of first births at the age of 30 and parent also grew by almost 13 percent for mothers from 30 to 34 (from 22.3 percent to around 25 percent) and 25 percent for mothers aged 35 and older (from 10 to 12.5 percent) from 2016 to 2023.
This may be due to the increase in the availability of contraception, as well as a steadily growing number of women in the workforce who give priority to career than founding a family.
The increase in age at the beginning of motherhood suggests that the fertility percentage will fall further. The CDC data shows that on average women have 25 percent fewer children in 2023 than their mothers and 50 percent less than their grandmothers.
The births of women in the twenties have fallen almost a third.
‘Monitoring trends between the ages of mothers are important because the age of the mother can influence the total number of births and population growth and is associated with birth results for both mothers and infants,’ the CDC researchers said.
“For example, a higher age of the mother is linked to a smaller family size on average and can entail various health risks and benefits compared to younger age of mothers.”
General fertility percentages in the US have fallen rapidly since the baby boom after the Second World War, which falls from around 100 births per 1,000 women to 54.6 births per 1,000 women
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Older age of mothers, especially after 35, increases some risks of pregnancy complications, including maternity diabetes and miscarriage, as well as genetic abnormalities in the baby, such as Down’s syndrome.
“This long -term shift reflects changes in social, educational and economic factors that influence when women start fertility,” the researchers said.
The Foundation for Higher Birth Evening was laid in 1960 with the debut of the contraceptive pill, so that women first gave control.
In the following years it became more often for people for children for later reasons for various reasons – from financial concerns and challenges on childcare to postponing marriage or partnership and concentrating on education, career or personal time in early adulthood.
Choosing not to have children has also become more socially accepted, with some data that indicates that more people make that choice.
Some studies suggest that children born from older parents tend to be trained and relatively richly grow up to become healthier, better educated and better worn than colleagues with younger parents.
And women who get children later in life report that greater happiness has the stimulans around and after their birth, compared to younger mothers.
In a New York Times survey 2018, about 25 percent of the respondents said that they had fewer children – or expected – than they had initially hoped, often because of financial limitations or the feeling that they no longer had time to achieve their ideal family size.
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