Key figures birth; perception and prognosis, birth generation

This table contains the average number of children per woman, the percentage of women by number of children and the average age of the mother at the birth of her first child. All figures are by female birth generation. The figures relate to the population of the Netherlands. Data available from: birth generation 1935 Status of the figures: The figures based on the numbers of births observed up to and including the year 2016 are final. This means that the figures up to and including birth generation 1966 are based entirely on observations. Figures from birth generation 1967 have been supplemented with future expectations of fertility figures from the CBS Population Forecast 2017-2060. The figures from birth generation 2002 are entirely based on forecast figures. Changes as of December 16, 2020: This table has been discontinued. See section 3 for the successor to this table. Changes as of December 19, 2017: None, this is a new table in which the previous forecast has been adjusted on the basis of the observations that have now become available. The forecast period now runs from 2017 to 2060. This new table incorporates birth observation figures up to and including 2016. When will new numbers come out? The publication frequency of this table is one-off. In December 2020, a new table will be published with the (prognosis of the) key birth figures.