17/10/2020 Age of NEW parents in GErmany rises!The average age of new parents is rising in Germany. German fathers are in the top midfield EU-wide. Two thirds of all men who became fathers of a child in 2019 were between 29 and 39 years old (66%); only 6% were older than 44 years. Among mothers, 65% were between 29 and 39 years old and 0.3% were older than 44 years. As reported by the Federal Statistical Office and the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB) on the basis of a new study on paternity, the average age of fathers at the birth of a child has increased by 3.6 years since 1991 to 34.6 years. Also, the mothers of children born in 2019 were, at 31.5 years, on average 3.6 years older than the mothers of babies born in 1991 (27.9 years). Fathers of firstborns were on average 33.1 years old in 2019. For women who became mothers for the first time in 2019, the average age was 30.1 years.The parents of the second born were 2 years older: 35.2 and 32.2 years, respectively. For the third child the average age of the fathers was 36.6 years and that of the mothers 33.2 years. Youngest parents live in Saxony-Anhalt In a comparison of the federal states in 2019 in Saxony-Anhalt, fathers were the youngest at the birth of children at 34.0 years of age and mothers at 30.6 years. The average age at birth was highest in Hamburg: there the fathers were 35.4 and the mothers 32.4 years old. In 2019, an average of 1.45 children per father were born in Germany. Between 1991 and 2006, this so-called combined paternity rate fluctuated around the value of 1.20 children per father. Since 2007, it has risen continuously to 1.50 children per father in 2016, and then declined slightly until 2019. As in most economically highly developed countries, the paternity rate of men in Germany is lower than the total fertility rate of women, which was 1.54 children per mother in 2019. This is mainly due to the fact that the number of potential fathers is higher than the number of potential mothers. Paternity rate lower in the East than in the West While in the eastern states the paternity rate in 2019 was between 1.29 and 1.35 children per father, it was significantly higher in most western states, at 1.45 to 1.51 children per father. Only in Saarland was it somewhat lower at 1.39. By contrast, the birth rate for women in 2019 no longer shows an east-west contrast. The larger differences between the paternity rates of men and the birth rates of women in eastern Germany are due to the fact that in many parts of eastern Germany there are significantly more men than women. Age of new fathers in EU at birth between 32 and 36 years In terms of the average age of fathers at the birth of children, Germany belongs to the "older" midfield in the European Union. According to estimates for the year 2017, fathers in Italy, Greece and Spain were the oldest in the EU at around 36 years of age at the birth of their children (Germany 2017: 34.4 years). They were the youngest in Romania at around 32 years of age. In Lithuania, Poland and Bulgaria, the age of fathers at birth was also below 33 years. In terms of the paternity rate, Germany is in the upper midfield, similar to the combined birth rate of women (2017: 1.48 children per father). The lowest paternity rates of about 1.2 children per father in 2017 were recorded by the southern European countries Malta, Spain and Italy. The highest paternity rate was in France with just under 1.9 children per father. Source: fastflip.de CategoriesAll Family Finance SELF DEVELOPMENT SHOPPING Archives October 2020 Related ARticlesComments are closed.
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