Key figures birth; observation and prognosis (2014), 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 2013 are final. This means that the figures up to and including birth generation 1963 are based entirely on observations. Figures from birth generation 1964 have been supplemented with future expectations of fertility figures from the CBS Population Forecast 2014-2060. The figures from birth generation 1999 onwards are based entirely on forecast figures. Changes as of December 19, 2017: This table has been discontinued. See section 3 for the successor to this table. Changes as of 18 December 2014: - This new table includes the figures relating to birth observations up to and including 2013; - In this new table, the previous forecast has been adjusted based on the most recent insights, the forecast period now runs from 2014 to 2060. When will new figures be released? The publication frequency of this table is one-off. In December 2017, a new table will be published in which the observations for 2015, 2016 and 2017 are processed and the future expectations are replaced by those from the Population Forecast 2017-2060.