Young Spaniards do want to have children, although according to the Fertility Survey 2018, prepared by the National Institute of Statistics (INE), Each time they have the afternoon.
The economic reasons seem to be behind of surprising data: 88.1% of Spanish women between 18 and 30 have no children, an average that rises to 95.1 percent in the case of men who still have no offspring at 30 years.
Five years of maternity delay
Motherhood reaches Spanish women after 30 years, according to the new INE fertility survey: More than half of women aged 30 to 34 (52.0%) have not yet had children.
The percentage of women who have not yet been a mother is reduced to 27.8% in those aged 35 to 39 and 19.0% in those aged 40 and over.
AdvertisingAnother of the data that the INE throws is that Most women and men under 40 have a child or none. The number of men who have two and more children increases with age, standing at 54.3% in men 45 and older.
While, Among women, the average number of offspring is lower in those who work outside the home: 1.5 children on average, with 40 years or more.
In addition, the survey reflects that 42% of women residents in Spain between the ages of 18 and 55 He had his first child 5.2 years later than they considered ideal.
According to Antonio Argüeso, Deputy Director General of Sociodemographic Statistics of the INE "The optimal time to have children from a biological point of view is not at all in line with when women start having them."
Spanish women with studies have fewer children
Women of foreign nationality have more children than Spanish women at all ages and have them at earlier ages: in the age group 30 to 34, foreigners have an average of 1.2 children per woman, compared to 0, 69 children of the Spanish.
The biggest difference is in the age group of 25 to 29 years, in which the percentage of Spanish women who have not yet had children is 83.5% compared to 55.4% of foreigners.
But the survey also notes that as the educational level increases, the age to maternity is delayed. Women with higher education level, between 45 and 49 years, have had 1.50 children; those who completed Secondary, 1.58 children and those who did not finish compulsory studies, an average of 1.63.
Low and late birth due to economic and labor reasons
As for the reasons alleged by the respondents for the delay of their maternity, 30 percent of women (regardless of their age) indicate a sum of labor reasons, reconciling family and work life and economic.
These reasons are even more important for not having children from the age of 35, being the cause in 36 percent of cases.
In fact, the economic, labor or reconciliation reasons of family and work life are the main reasons for not having more children among those under 30. And they are the second reason pointed out by women between 30 and 39 years old.
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Regarding the average number of children per woman, Murcia is the region with the highest number of children on average in all age groups, reaching 1.78 among those over 40.
On the contrary, Madrid and Galicia are the communities in which women under 30 have fewer children. Castilla y León further lowers the average in women between 35 and 39, and the Principality of Asturias offers the lowest birth rates, among women aged 30 to 34 and those aged 40 and over.
In Babies and more An alarming reality: the number of births in Spain is the lowest since 1941But we can end with more positive data reflected in the INE 2018 Fertility Survey: 62.1% of women without children between 30 and 34 years old and 57.5% between 35 and 39, He intends to have them in the next three years.
In addition, 41.8% of women aged 34 or younger and who are already mothers, plan to become pregnant again in less than three years.
They are data extracted from a survey of 17,175 people (women and men) from all over Spain, aged between 18 and 55 years.
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