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Mean Age at Childbearing, 1976

1976, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Mean Age at Childbearing, 1976 covers 222 countries. Vatican City is highest, at 32.337; Bulgaria is lowest, at 24.329. The middle country reads 28.476. Against 1975, 213 values changed (77 up, 136 down), the same countries are covered.

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Mean Age at Childbearing · Data for 1976

HighestVatican City

32.337

LowestBulgaria

24.329

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Mean Age at Childbearing, 1976, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 222 countries · select a heading to sort

Mean Age at Childbearing, 1976: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe32.337
DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa31.217
RwandaRWAEastern Africa31.151
SomaliaSOMEastern Africa31.115
EritreaERIEastern Africa31.074
Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia31.005
BurundiBDIEastern Africa30.804
TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa30.784
AngolaAGOMiddle Africa30.676
NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa30.667
MongoliaMNGEastern Asia30.633
VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia30.618
AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa30.616
MacauMACEastern Asia30.602
JordanJORWestern Asia30.574
MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia30.551
TongaTONPolynesia30.498
HaitiHTICaribbean30.496
YemenYEMWestern Asia30.365
CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia30.354
TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia30.343
TajikistanTJKCentral Asia30.302
GhanaGHAWestern Africa30.273
MoroccoMARNorthern Africa30.193
SyriaSYRWestern Asia30.149

02In 1976

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Vatican City32.337
  2. Djibouti31.217
  3. Rwanda31.151
  4. Somalia31.115
  5. Eritrea31.074

Lowest

  1. Bulgaria24.329
  2. Montserrat24.999
  3. Czechia25.038
  4. Hungary25.046
  5. Cuba25.197

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 28.476. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031975 → 1976

Since 1975

What changed between 1975 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 213values changed, of 222 in both
  • 77 · 136rose · fell
  • 9unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method

  • One year of the 2024 release

    Every year in this series comes from UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1976.

  • 216 distinct values among 222

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 29.765. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Which end is better

    Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 222 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 3.0 IGO. The version of CC BY written for intergovernmental organisations. Credit the publisher and say what you changed.

Cite this edition

UN DESA Population Division (1976). Mean Age at Childbearing, 1976 [data set], describing 1976. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/mean-age-childbearing/1976

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07Questions

Mean Age at Childbearing, 1976: questions and answers

Which country has the highest mean age at childbearing in Mean Age at Childbearing, 1976?

Vatican City, at 32.337, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Mean Age at Childbearing, 1976 describe?

1976.

How many countries does Mean Age at Childbearing, 1976 cover?

222.

Where can I download Mean Age at Childbearing, 1976?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Mean Age at Childbearing, 1976 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Mean Age at Childbearing, 2023.

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