Spain has Europe's second-highest percentage of first-time mothers over 40
Thursday, May 14, 2015 @ 10:51 AM
ONE in 20 first-time mums in Spain are in their 40s – the second-highest number in Europe, a new study has shown.
According to the EU's statistics agency Eurostat, Italy has the greatest proportion of new mothers over 40 – latest figures only reach until the end of 2013, but over that year, 6.1% of previously-childless women born during or before 1973 had babies.
In Spain, first-time mums aged 40 or more accounted for 5.1% of all women who gave birth in 2013.
Greece was just behind, at 4.1%, followed by Luxembourg at 3.8%.
The study also found Spain's number of teenage mothers was below average at 3.5% of the total.
During 2013, a total of 15.6% of babies in Romania were born to women and girls aged under 20, the highest number in Europe, followed by 14.7% of those in Bulgaria and 11% of those in Hungary, whilst at the other end of the scale, Luxembourg's and Cyprus' new babies were born to mothers under 20 in just 2.4% of cases, those in The Netherlands in 2.2% of cases, with just 1.9% and 1.8% respectively in Slovenia and Italy born to teenage mums.
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