Press release No. 411 of 16 October 2020
WIESBADEN – Two thirds of all men who became fathers of a child in 2019 were between 29 and 39 years old (66%); only 6% were over 44. Among mothers, 65% were between 29 and 39 years old, and 0.3% were older than 44 years. Based on a new study on paternities, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) and the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB) report that, since 1991, the average age of fathers at the birth of a child rose by 3.6 years to 34.6 years. The mothers of the children born in 2019, too, were an average 3.6 years older (31.5 years) than the mothers of babies in 1991 (27.9 years).
