The table below presents the number of children ever born to women aged 40-44 years in Australia for each year the information was collected since 1981.
The table illustrates in percentages how many children had the Australian's females with 40-44 ages, between 1981 and 2006.
Overall
, throughout the data is easy to identify that the highest average of kids is about two or three siblings. Especially, in the most modern years. On the other hand
, the lowest rate of childbirth, it was between zero and one child was reached in the most ancient times.
First,
from 1981 to 2006 the group of females, who decided not to have any babies increased by almost double. Moreover
, the percentage of women who made the decision to reduce the number of babies from four also
decreased considerably almost a third of the number from 1981 to 2006.
In addition
, the female group showed some preference for having just two children, this
preference was always the highest in the table. Despite the reduction of about six percentage points, the option of having three infants was the second trend.Submitted by katina.marinakisossa on
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