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    Default One in five women are childless at 45 and they are having fewer offspring than ever, new data reveal

    Women are also having children later in life, Office for National Statistics shows
    By Tim Sculthorpe, Deputy Political Editor For Mailonline
    PUBLISHED: 13:54 GMT, 24 November 2017

    Women are having fewer children than ever before and more are staying childless, new data reveals today.

    Women who turned 45 in 2016 had an average of 1.80 children, down from 2.21 for their mothers' generation, who turned 45 in 1944.

    The same generation also had fewer children by their 30th birthday, suggesting women are having children later in life. Women who turned 45 last year had 1.06 children by 30 compared to 1.8 in their mother's generation.

    In total, 18 per cent of women who turned 45 last year had no children at all, compared with 11 per cent of women in their mother's generation.

    The ONS said the figures, collected from birth registration data going back to the 1930s, defined 45 as the age by which most women had stopped having children.

    Teenage motherhood is also dropping, with just 6 per cent of women having had at least one child before their 20th birthday.

    The new Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures show that the average size of families in England and Wales peaked for women born in 1935 and has been falling since.


    In total, 18 per cent of women born in 1971 had no children at all, compared with 11 per cent of women in their mother's generation, when they finished their families (red line). Many more are also childless at 30 - 44 per cent of women who turned 45 last year - compared to just 18 per cent of their mother's generation (red line)

    The research also showed a continuing downward trend in the rate of teenage motherhood, with just 6 per cent of women born in 1996 having at least one child before their 20th birthday, matching rates seen among women born in the 1920s.

    Only about one in 10 women who reached the age of 45 in 2016 had four or more children, compared with about one in eight for women born in 1944.

    Women born in the 1960s onwards also had fewer children by the time they were 30 than the generations before them.

    Overall, women born in 1971 were shown to have had 1.06 children on average by their 30th birthday, compared with 1.8 children for their mothers' generation.

    This reflected a general trend in postponing having children to an older age, the ONS said.

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