We recently severalize you about the average age men and women getmarriedin each nation , but how does parenthood fit into that picture ? We comb out information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to find out how the numbers heap up today and how they ’ve change over time .
The graphic above shows the average eld of a mother at the parturition of her first child for each state of matter , with stats from 1970 , 1980 , 1990 , 2000 , and 2013 ( with the exclusion of Pennsylvania and Delaware , for which 2012 data was used — at the time of committal to writing , neither DoS had terminate processing their data for 2013 ) . According to a National Center for Health Statistics spokesperson , with the exclusion of a few states , the most recent state - level data on the beggarly maternal age at first birth number from 2006 ; in gild to get more late identification number , we become to the epidemiologist and data specialists at various province health departments . ( A few land had already publish recent data for a mother ’s average age at first birth , while our trusty researcher Jocelyn Sears look approximative averages from raw data point for Florida , Kansas , Rhode Island , and Vermont.)As you might bear ( or already hump ) the average years that women are first having children is on the rise — but that ’s not the only story the information is telling . For the year 2013 , in all but a handful of states , the middling eld at first parentage was actually lower than charwoman ’s ordinary age at first marriage . Only Ohio , Utah , Washington , and Wyoming saw low first man and wife numbers than first birth numbers ( it was the same—27 years old — in Minnesota ) . On average , the eld at first marriage is 27.4 years old in the U.S. , while the eld at first birth is 26 class old .
allot to theCDC , 40.6 percent of all birth ( not just first - Max Born ) in 2013 were to single and/or unwedded mothers , a percentage that has greatlyincreasedin the last few X , but has really decreased over the last few years . However , this does n’t hold true for fair sex over 35 ; the bit of single mother in this demographic is actuallyon the rise . That , along with the broader societal tendency to put off having kids , suggest that this trend will likely continue .
Graphic by Chloe Effron .
