The Future of Fertility - The desire to have children for mid-30s and older persons
23 MAY 2022
Today, Austria's women are on average 29.7 years old at the birth of their first child; in 1970, this figure was still 23.6 years old. The BIC.LATE project investigates the biological, individual and contextual conditions under which the desire to have children arises for women and men in their mid-30s and older.
The whole article in German can be read here:
https://impact-sowi.univie.ac.at/faecher/demografie/die-zukunft-der-fruchtbarkeit/
Photo credit: © RIVA, Maddalena Carrai
The Wittgenstein Centre aspires to be a world leader in the advancement of demographic methods and their application to the analysis of human capital and population dynamics. In assessing the effects of these forces on long-term human well-being, we combine scientific excellence in a multidisciplinary context with relevance to a global audience. It is a collaboration among the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the University of Vienna.