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 kids were ever born to Australian females between the ages of 40 and 44 between 1981 and 2006.

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, throughout the data, it is easy to identify that from 1981

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onwards, there is an upward tendency in the number of offspring born to mothers over 40.

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, mature women were more likely to have two siblings in their families. First and foremost, the group of ladies giving no birth and having a single child appeared with a slight difference, where zero-child families dominated, at just under 16%.

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, it is obvious that the tendency for mothers of four or more babies became less popular over the given time frame, with a drop to 11% in 2006.

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, looking at the table in detail, females who preferred to have two children became trendier from 1986

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onwards and reached the peak of 38.2% and 38.3% in 1996 and 2006, respectively.

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, three child women were likely to decline, and witnessed the trough of 21.5% in 2006.