The bar chart illustrates the proportion of the women in Australia and their age when they have the first child in 1996, 1986, and 2006.
Overall, the rate of birth tended to decrease by the times, especially for women aged 19 or under and between 20 to 24. Trend for female who were 30 to 34 and 35 to 39 years old, in contrast, rose shaply and ended as the two most age range of women who experienced their first childbirth.
Female aged beween 20 to 24 years old recorded the highest range at 60% for giving childbirth for the first time in 1966, before consistently decreasing to to approximately 40% and 30% in the following years.
On the other hand, the opposite trend were seen by the women who are 30 to 34 years old since the percentage of them carrying the first baby gradually rose from only around 10% in the first given year and recorded its highest among other ages at roughly 50% by the end.
