Birth; age mother (on 31-12), birth order and fertility rates 1950-2014

Changed on: 30/06/2016 02:00

Birth; age mother (on 31-12), birth order and fertility rates 1950-2014
Age mother (on 31 December)	Periods	Live born children Total live born children Total live born children (number)	Live born children Total live born children First child (number)	Live born children Total live born children Second child (number)	Live born children Total live born children Third child (number)	Live born children Total live born children Fourth or following children (number)	Live born children Marital live born children Total marital live born children (number)	Live born children Marital live born children First child (number)	Live born children Marital live born children Second child (number)	Live born children Marital live born children Third child (number)	Live born children Marital live born children Fourth or following children (number)	Live born children Non-marital live born children Total non-marital live born children (number)	Live born children Non-marital live born children First child (number)	Live born children Non-marital live born children Second child (number)	Live born children Non-marital live born children Third child (number)	Live born children Non-marital live born children Fourth or following children (number)	Live born children, rates Total live born children (0/00)	Live born children, rates First child (0/00)	Live born children, rates Second child (0/00)	Live born children, rates Third child (0/00)	Live born children, rates Fourth or following children (0/00)
Total (ages mothers)	2014	175,181	80,744	64,013	21,754	8,670	97,933	38,542	38,153	14,791	6,447	77,248	42,202	25,860	6,963	2,223	46.54	21.45	17.01	5.78	2.30
15 years or younger	2014	19	19	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	19	19	-	-	-	0.19	0.19	-	-	-
16 years	2014	56	56	-	-	-	1	1	-	-	-	55	55	-	-	-	0.57	0.57	-	-	-
17 years	2014	155	150	5	-	-	10	9	1	-	-	145	141	4	-	-	1.61	1.56	0.05	-	-
18 years	2014	363	346	17	-	-	31	31	-	-	-	332	315	17	-	-	3.81	3.63	0.18	-	-
19 years	2014	683	628	54	1	-	88	72	16	-	-	595	556	38	1	-	7.00	6.44	0.55	0.01	-
20 years	2014	1,218	1,062	147	9	-	201	158	40	3	-	1,017	904	107	6	-	11.98	10.44	1.45	0.09	-
21 years	2014	1,746	1,430	283	29	4	453	360	82	10	1	1,293	1,070	201	19	3	17.01	13.93	2.76	0.28	0.04
22 years	2014	2,505	1,920	523	52	10	798	608	169	19	2	1,707	1,312	354	33	8	23.97	18.37	5.00	0.50	0.10
23 years	2014	3,654	2,667	836	129	22	1,454	1,072	323	50	9	2,200	1,595	513	79	13	34.16	24.93	7.82	1.21	0.21
24 years	2014	5,090	3,513	1,305	238	34	2,344	1,584	629	114	17	2,746	1,929	676	124	17	47.22	32.59	12.11	2.21	0.32
25 years	2014	6,545	4,365	1,790	328	62	3,317	2,143	994	150	30	3,228	2,222	796	178	32	62.31	41.55	17.04	3.12	0.59
26 years	2014	8,318	5,283	2,444	500	91	4,420	2,646	1,432	289	53	3,898	2,637	1,012	211	38	79.98	50.80	23.50	4.81	0.88
27 years	2014	10,110	6,138	3,120	688	164	5,696	3,262	1,895	434	105	4,414	2,876	1,225	254	59	97.24	59.04	30.01	6.62	1.58
28 years	2014	11,950	6,685	4,083	959	223	6,932	3,583	2,611	599	139	5,018	3,102	1,472	360	84	114.28	63.93	39.05	9.17	2.13
29 years	2014	13,384	7,030	4,673	1,275	406	8,009	3,829	3,039	879	262	5,375	3,201	1,634	396	144	130.78	68.69	45.66	12.46	3.97
30 years	2014	14,152	6,895	5,366	1,493	398	8,410	3,592	3,479	1,058	281	5,742	3,303	1,887	435	117	140.61	68.50	53.31	14.83	3.95
31 years	2014	14,315	6,397	5,658	1,714	546	8,563	3,317	3,581	1,261	404	5,752	3,080	2,077	453	142	145.50	65.02	57.51	17.42	5.55
32 years	2014	14,203	5,818	5,849	1,904	632	8,420	2,867	3,674	1,391	488	5,783	2,951	2,175	513	144	143.19	58.66	58.97	19.20	6.37
33 years	2014	13,407	4,714	5,948	2,044	701	8,052	2,311	3,696	1,496	549	5,355	2,403	2,252	548	152	131.45	46.22	58.32	20.04	6.87
34 years	2014	12,043	3,853	5,364	2,084	742	7,132	1,838	3,214	1,510	570	4,911	2,015	2,150	574	172	116.73	37.35	51.99	20.20	7.19
35 years	2014	9,961	3,052	4,285	1,927	697	5,907	1,469	2,521	1,366	551	4,054	1,583	1,764	561	146	99.53	30.49	42.81	19.25	6.96
36 years	2014	8,334	2,414	3,528	1,668	724	4,823	1,079	2,026	1,153	565	3,511	1,335	1,502	515	159	82.83	23.99	35.06	16.58	7.20
37 years	2014	6,649	1,760	2,780	1,427	682	3,855	770	1,578	973	534	2,794	990	1,202	454	148	66.87	17.70	27.96	14.35	6.86
38 years	2014	5,105	1,408	2,078	1,063	556	2,865	599	1,137	710	419	2,240	809	941	353	137	51.10	14.09	20.80	10.64	5.57
39 years	2014	3,748	996	1,441	775	536	2,038	422	729	490	397	1,710	574	712	285	139	36.98	9.83	14.22	7.65	5.29
40 years	2014	2,798	763	988	597	450	1,562	336	545	346	335	1,236	427	443	251	115	26.37	7.19	9.31	5.63	4.24
41 years	2014	1,883	524	645	374	340	1,046	225	333	227	261	837	299	312	147	79	17.10	4.76	5.86	3.40	3.09
42 years	2014	1,233	375	385	224	249	655	155	188	128	184	578	220	197	96	65	10.32	3.14	3.22	1.88	2.09
43 years	2014	731	227	193	134	177	383	84	103	74	122	348	143	90	60	55	5.87	1.82	1.55	1.08	1.42
44 years	2014	401	115	122	66	98	215	48	56	30	81	186	67	66	36	17	3.09	0.89	0.94	0.51	0.76
45 years	2014	212	58	48	34	72	127	29	32	22	44	85	29	16	12	28	1.60	0.44	0.36	0.26	0.54
46 years	2014	98	31	29	10	28	56	14	14	5	23	42	17	15	5	5	0.77	0.24	0.23	0.08	0.22
47 years	2014	40	16	10	2	12	26	9	5	2	10	14	7	5	-	2	0.32	0.13	0.08	0.02	0.10
48 years	2014	21	11	5	-	5	11	3	4	-	4	10	8	1	-	1	0.17	0.09	0.04	-	0.04
49 years or older	2014	51	25	11	6	9	33	17	7	2	7	18	8	4	4	2	0.40	0.20	0.09	0.05	0.07
Younger than 20 years	2014	1,276	1,199	76	1	-	130	113	17	-	-	1,146	1,086	59	1	-	2.62	2.46	0.16	0.00	-
20 to 25 years	2014	14,213	10,592	3,094	457	70	5,250	3,782	1,243	196	29	8,963	6,810	1,851	261	41	27.14	20.23	5.91	0.87	0.13
25 to 30 years	2014	50,307	29,501	16,110	3,750	946	28,374	15,463	9,971	2,351	589	21,933	14,038	6,139	1,399	357	96.76	56.74	30.99	7.21	1.82
30 to 35 years	2014	68,120	27,677	28,185	9,239	3,019	40,577	13,925	17,644	6,716	2,292	27,543	13,752	10,541	2,523	727	135.32	54.98	55.99	18.35	6.00
35 to 40 years	2014	33,797	9,630	14,112	6,860	3,195	19,488	4,339	7,991	4,692	2,466	14,309	5,291	6,121	2,168	729	67.41	19.21	28.15	13.68	6.37
40 to 45 years	2014	7,046	2,004	2,333	1,395	1,314	3,861	848	1,225	805	983	3,185	1,156	1,108	590	331	11.94	3.40	3.96	2.37	2.23
45 years or older	2014	422	141	103	52	126	253	72	62	31	88	169	69	41	21	38	0.66	0.22	0.16	0.08	0.20
Total fertility rate (TFR)	2014																1.71	0.79	0.63	0.21	0.08
Source: CBS.

Explanation of symbols

Table explanation

Live born children (among the population of the Netherlands) by birth order from the mother, marital status of the mother, age of the mother and fertility rates.

Available selections:
- live born children by birth order to the mother, marital status of the mother and age of the mother;
- fertility rates by birth order to the mother and age of the mother.

Data available from 1950 until 2014.

Status of the figures:
All data recorded in this publication are final data.

Changes on 30 June 2016:
This table is discontinued.

When will new figures be published?
Not applicable anymore.

Description topics

Live born children

Live born children by marital status of the mother and birth order from the mother.

Live born child:
A baby showing some sign of life after birth, regardless of the duration of pregnancy.

Birth order from the mother (live born children):
The position of the child in the ranking of live born children from a mother.

Marital status:
Legal status involving someone's rights and competences as determined by legal marriage and registered partnership.

Legal marriage:
Legal, formally sanctioned living arrangement between two people. Since 1 April 2001, it is legally possible for people in the Netherlands to marry a person of the same sex.

Lesbian parenthood
The law on lesbian parenthood came into effect on 1 April 2014. From April 2014 onwards the female partner of the biological mother may become the legal parent of the child without a legal adoption procedure. The same data for both mothers are available in the municipal population register. Statistics Netherlands does not have information about which of the mothers is the biological mother. To obtain data about, for example, the age, number of children and ethnic background of the mother, Statistics Netherland selects one of the mothers at random.

Partnership registration:
A marriage-like relationship recorded at the registry office. Partnership registration is open to same-sex and different-sex couples.

Total live born children

Total live born children by birth order from the mother.

Total live born children

First child: Live born first children to the mother.

Second child: Live born second children to the mother.

Third child: Live born third children to the mother.

Fourth or following children: Live born fourth or following children to the mother.

Marital live born children

Marital born child:
A child where the mother is married at the time of birth, or a child from a widow whose male or female spouse passed away less than 306 days before the birth.

Break in series
From 2010 onwards a small shift has occurred between a number of marital statuses (fewer never married and more married, divorced and widowed respectively). Because information on some marital statuses was lacking for the period 1998 to 2010 in data used by Statistics Netherlands, 'divorced after partnership' and 'widowed after partnership' were not included in these statistics for this period. For these statistics, the marital status before the partnership was used instead, which was mostly 'never married'. From 2010 all marital statuses are available.

Married:
From 2010: legally married and partnership.
1998 to 2010: legally married.
Because information was lacking on some marital statuses in data in the period 1998 to 2010 used by Statistics Netherlands, partnerships were not included in this period.
Until 1998: legally married.

Widowed:
From 2010: widowed after a legal marriage and widowed after a partnership.
From 1998 to 2010: widowed after a legal marriage.
Because information was lacking on some marital statuses in the period 1998 to 2010 in data used by Statistics Netherlands, partnerships were not included in this period. For these statistics, this results in data including 'partnership after widowed'. For 'widowed after partnership' the marital status before the partnership was used, which was mostly unmarried.
Until 1998 widowed after a legal marriage.

Divorced:
From 2010: divorced after legal marriage and divorced after partnership.
1998 to 2010: divorced after legal marriage.
Because information was lacking on some marital statuses in data in the period 1998 tot 2010 used by Statistics Netherlands, partnerships were not included in this period. For these statistics, this results in data including 'partnership after divorced'. For 'divorced after partnership' the marital status before the partnership was used, which was mostly unmarried.
Until 1998: divorced after legal marriage.

Legally married:
Marital status resulting from having married legally. Including judicial separations which are included in the catagory married.

Partnership:
Marital status resulting from entering into a registered partnership.

Widowed after a legal marriage:
Marital status resulting from death ending a legal marriage.

Widowed after partnership:
Marital status resulting from death ending a registered partnership.

Divorced after a legal marriage:
Marital status resulting from ending a legal marriage by divorce.
Excluding judicial separations which are included in the catagory married.

Divorced after partnership:
Marital status resulting from ending a registered partnership other than by the death of the partner.

Marriage (legal):
Legal, formally sanctioned living arrangement between two people.
Since 1 April 2001, it is legally possible for people in the Netherlands to marry a person of the same sex.

Registered partnership:
A marriage-like relationship between two people of the opposite or same sex, registered at the Register of Births, Deaths and Marriages.
Registered partnership was introduced in The Netherlands on 1 January 1998.

Total marital live born children

First child: Marital live born first children to the mother.

Second child: Marital live born second children to the mother.

Third child: Marital live born third children to the mother.

Fourth or following children: Marital live born fourth or following children to the mother.

Non-marital live born children

Non marital born child:
A child where the mother is never married, divorced or widowed at the moment of birth. If the mother was married and the marriage was dissolved by the death of her husband less than 306 days before she gave birth, the birth is considered within marriage.

Break in series
From 2010 onwards a small shift has occurred between a number of marital statuses (fewer never married and more married, divorced and widowed respectively). Because information on some marital statuses was lacking for the period 1998 to 2010 in data used by Statistics Netherlands, 'divorced after partnership' and 'widowed after partnership' were not included in these statistics for this period. For these statistics, the marital status before the partnership was used instead, which was mostly 'never married'. From 2010 all marital statuses are available.

Never married:
From 2010: marital status indicating that someone was never married or never in a registered partnership.
1998 to 2010: marital status indicating that someone was never married.
Because information was lacking on some marital statuses in the period 1998 to 2010 in data used by Statistics Netherlands, partnerships were not included in this period. For these statistics, this results in data including 'partnership after never married'. For 'widowed after partnership' and 'divorced after partnership' the marital status before the partnership was used, wich was mostly unmarried.
Until 1998: marital status indicating that someone was never married.

Widowed:
From 2010: widowed after a legal marriage and widowed after a partnership.
From 1998 to 2010: widowed after a legal marriage.
Because information was lacking on some marital statuses in the period 1998 to 2010 in data used by Statistics Netherlands, partnerships were not included in this period. For these statistics, this results in data including 'partnership after widowed'. For 'widowed after partnership' the marital status before the partnership was used, wich was mostly unmarried.
Until 1998 widowed after a legal marriage.

Divorced:
From 2010: divorced after legal marriage and divorced after partnership.
1998 to 2010: divorced after legal marriage.
Because information was lacking on some marital statuses in data in the period 1998 tot 2010 used by Statistics Netherlands, partnerships were not included in this period. For these statistics, this results in data including 'partnership after divorced'. For 'divorced after partnership' the marital status before the partnership was used, wich was mostly unmarried.
Until 1998: divorced after legal marriage.

Widowed after a legal marriage:
Marital status resulting from death ending a legal marriage.

Widowed after partnership:
Marital status resulting from death ending a registered partnership.

Divorced after a legal marriage:
Marital status resulting from ending a legal marriage by divorce.
Excluding judicial separations which are included in the catagory married.

Divorced after partnership:
Marital status resulting from ending a registered partnership other than by the death of the partner.

Marriage (legal):
Legal, formally sanctioned living arrangement between two people.
Since 1 April 2001, it is legally possible for people in the Netherlands to marry a person of the same sex.

Registered partnership:
A marriage-like relationship between two people of the opposite or same sex, registered at the Register of Births, Deaths and Marriages.
Registered partnership was introduced in The Netherlands on 1 January 1998.

Total non-marital live born children

First child: Non-marital live born first children to the mother.

Second child: Non-marital live born second children to the mother.

Third child: Non-marital live born third children to the mother.

Fourth or following children: Non-marital live born fourth or following children to the mother.

Live born children, rates

Live born children by birth order from the mother per 1,000 of the average female population in the selected agegroup.

Live born child:
A baby showing some sign of life after birth, regardless of the duration of pregnancy.

Birth order from the mother:
The position of the child in the ranking of live born children from a mother.

Total live born children: Total number of live born children per 1,000 females in the selected agegroup.

First child: Live born first children per 1,000 females in the selected agegroup.

Second child: Live born second children per 1,000 females in the selected agegroup.

Third child: Live born third children per 1,000 females in the selected agegroup.

Fourth or following children: Live born fourth or following children per 1,000 females in the selected agegroup.