Guardian Australia, Monday 14 December 2015 15.36 AEDT
More than one in five women giving birth in Australia are now aged 35 or over, the latest official figures show.
The latest birth data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare shows the proportion of mothers aged 35 and older who gave birth increased by four percentage points to 22% in the decade to 2013.
Women who gave birth aged under 24 decreased from 19% to 17%; 30.1 years was the average age in 2013, up from 29.5 years a decade earlier. First-time mothers had an average age of 28.6 years.
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