{"chart":{"slug":"birth-rates-by-mothers-age","title":"At what ages do American women have babies?","takeaway":"In 2024 women aged 30–34 had the highest birth rate, 93.7 births per 1,000 women, ahead of women aged 25–29 (89.5). The rate was 12.6 for teens aged 15 to 19 and 12.7 for women aged 40 to 44. 2024 is the latest year of final birth data.","topic":"Health","chart_type":"bar","ranking":false,"x_label":"Mother's age","y_label":"Births per 1,000 women in the age group in a year","unit":null,"points_count":8,"source":{"name":"CDC National Center for Health Statistics, Health, United States (birth and fertility rates)","url":"https://data.cdc.gov/National-Center-for-Health-Statistics/DQS-Birth-and-fertility-rates-by-age-group-race-an/daba-4vfq"},"license":{"name":"Public domain (U.S. government work)","url":"https://www.cdc.gov/other/agencymaterials.html"},"data_as_of":"2024-12-31","updated_at":"2026-10-17T18:50:40.505Z","url":"https://chart.ly/charts/birth-rates-by-mothers-age","api_url":"https://chart.ly/api/v1/charts/birth-rates-by-mothers-age","csv_url":"https://chart.ly/charts/birth-rates-by-mothers-age/data.csv","image_url":"https://chart.ly/charts/birth-rates-by-mothers-age/image.png","embed_url":"https://chart.ly/charts/birth-rates-by-mothers-age/embed","credit":"CDC National Center for Health Statistics, Health, United States (birth and fertility rates), via Chartly (https://chart.ly/charts/birth-rates-by-mothers-age)","credit_html":"CDC National Center for Health Statistics, Health, United States (birth and fertility rates), via \u003ca href=\"https://chart.ly/charts/birth-rates-by-mothers-age\"\u003eChartly\u003c/a\u003e","average_label":null,"zero_axis":true,"data":[{"label":"10–14","value":0.2},{"label":"15–19","value":12.6},{"label":"20–24","value":55.8},{"label":"25–29","value":89.5},{"label":"30–34","value":93.7},{"label":"35–39","value":54.3},{"label":"40–44","value":12.7},{"label":"45–54","value":1.1}],"annotations":[]},"docs":"https://chart.ly/developers","terms":"Free to use with credit: wherever you show or quote a chart's data, name Chartly with a link to that chart's url (each chart's credit line does both) and credit its source as its license asks.","credit":"CDC National Center for Health Statistics, Health, United States (birth and fertility rates), via Chartly (https://chart.ly/charts/birth-rates-by-mothers-age)"}