The table below presents the numbe of children ever born to women aged 40-44 years in Australia for each year the information was collected since 1981.

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born to women between the ages of 40 and 44, in Australia. The survey was done four times, from the year 1981 to 2006.

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having three more

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has reduced substantially over the period.

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of birthing two

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remained the highest in all four years. In 1981, 27.6% of women gave birth to more than three

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in the next 15 years, the figure halved, and eventually dropped to 11%, by 2006.

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the decline for three

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was not as drastic as four or more

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, the proportion fell from 27.4% (in 1981) to 21.5% (in 2006.) The percentage of mothers who birthed two

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29%, in 1981.

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figure rose to 35.6% in the next five years, after which it stayed the same, in 1996 and 2006, at about 38%. The figure for one and no

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, in the given timeframe, almost doubled from their initial value, from 8.5% to 15.9% and 7.6% to 13.2%, respectively.