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Average age of first-time mothers reaches all time high across US - study

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Researchers warn the trend may affect America's overall population growth and demographic composition.

In the year 2000, women had their first child 1.4 years earlier than in 2014, the latest year the government has tracked, giving birth at 24.9 years versus 26.3, on average.

"The proportion of first births to mothers aged 20–24 was the same in 2000 and 2014, while the proportion of first births to mothers aged 25–29 increased 14%, from 24.3% in 2000 to 27.7% in 2014," said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report published on Thursday.


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