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 above table illustrates data from more than two decades, with regard to the birth percentage of

women

in the age of early 40s in Australia.

Overall

,

women

with zero

children

have gradually increased,

while

gradually reducing the percentage of having more than 2

children

over the years.

To begin

with, in the early 80's, more than 25% of

women

in age between 40-42 had an average of more than 2

children

. In 1981, the percentage of childless

women

ratio was 8.5%,

whereas

in 2006,

women

with no

children

increased by 15.9%.

In contrast

, mothers with at least 1 child (7.6% to 12.3%) or 2

children

(29%-38.3%) have rapidly grown by the year 2006.

Furthermore

,

women

with 4 or more

children

have gradually declined over the time period (27.6% to 11%).

In addition

, from 1981 to 2006, the number of 3

children

ever born to 40-42 years

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women

slightly reduced from 27.4% to 21.5% by the end of 2006.