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

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.