The table gives information about the birth rate from Australian women aged 40-44 in the quarter century. It can be seen that the first three groups had an increasing trend on the number of the birth rate, in spite of the last two groups had a decreasing trend at the number of birth rate during the period.
In 1981, the Australian women aged 40-44 years old who has no children was 8.5 %, and this percentage increased slightly to 9.7 % in 1986. And for the next 10 years the percentage growth to 15.9 %. Similar with the Australian women in the same age group who has one child, was 8.5 % in 1981 and it increased slightly at 8.7 % in 1986, and for the next 10 years it reached 13.2 % of birth rate. Another similarity was the Australian woman in the same age group who has two children increased steadily from 29.0 % in 1981 to 35.6 % in 1986 and for the next 20 years the birth rate increased gradually at 38.3 %.
In contrast to this information, the Australian women age 40-44 years old who has three children and four children and more had decreasing trend on the number of birth rate. In 1981, the number of birth rate from the women who has three children was 27.4 % and then knocked down to 21.5 % in 2006. Nevertheless, the number of birth rate from the women who has four children and more was 27.6 % in 1981 and experienced dramatically decrease to 11% in 2006.
