Dataset
Average age of mothers at childbirth
owid.period-average-age-of-mothers
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About
Mean age of mothers at the birth of their children if women were subject throughout their lives to the age-specific fertility rates observed in a given year.
Cite as: Human Fertility Database (2026); UN, World Population Prospects (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data. “Mean age at childbearing” [dataset]. Human Fertility Database, “Human Fertility Database”; United Nations, “World Population Prospects”; United Nations, “World Population Prospects – Interim Update” [original data].
- Publisher
- Our World in Data
- Tier
- Official
- Covers
- 1891–2023
- Places
- Countries, regions and groups of the world
- Updated
- annual
- Last modified
- 2025-10-22
- Units
- years
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Method
- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/period-average-age-of-mothers
Columns
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| entity | text | country, region or group |
| code | text | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, OWID_ for OWID's own groups, empty for most regions |
| year | integer | |
| mean_age_childbearing_hist | number | Mean age at childbearing (years) |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| entity | |
| year |