The line graph illustrates how many children mothers had on average in two countries from 1920 to 2019 while the table displays the average age of first-time for the same countries and time period.
Overall, a general trend of women giving birth for the first time at a later age and having fewer children can be observed in both countries, although women in Kazakhstan had their first child earlier and had more children than their UK counterparts.
In the 1920s, the British woman gave birth to approximately two children while the Kazakhstani woman had 3.5. Birth rate continued to rise in both countries reaching a peak of around 2.8 and 4.4 children per wwoman in the 1960s for both countries respectively. From then onwwards, the numbers generally declined with the end of the period displaying a rate of approximately 1.8 children per mother in the UK and 2.9 in Kazakhstan.
In terms of women’s age at first time childbirth, Kazakhstani women preceeded women in the UK by about one to four years across the time period. The average age of first time motherhood increased slightly in both countries, from 23.5 to 27.6 in Kazakhstan while in the UK the ages went up from 26.5 to 28.9 at the end of the time period.