The graphs shows the total number of children born in a year per age groups for the mother. The children with the youngest mother’s is at the bottom of the graph and then the age groups follows in order up until the oldest mothers at the top. The total number of children born 1968 in Sweden was slightly above 113 000. Of those a little more than 37 000 was born by women aged 25-29 years. The first graph where different age groups is combined into five year groups is pretty beautiful, the second where every single age is shown by itself is a mess and only for the brave ones who want to look at a specific one year group.

In 1968 75% of newborns had a mother under the age of 30 and 25% was born by mothers at least 30 years old. In 2024 the numbers was almost completely reversed as 29% of newborns had a mother under the age of 30, while 71% was born by mothers aged 30 or older. The biggest change for among the age groups was in the decline in the group of mothers 20-24 which went from giving birth to 34% of all children 1968 to 6% 2024 and for the group of mothers 30-34 who went from giving birth to 16% to 41% of all children.

Statistics gathered from Statistics Sweden.

Tools used: Python (packages: pyscbwrapper for fetching the data, pandas, matplotlib and seaborne to create the graph) and some AI for help (Claude)

Posted by Moulin_Noir

7 comments

  2. The extension of childhood into the early 20s has been a disaster for the human race.

  3. A normalized graph would be really interesting, as it’s difficult to see how the proportions change over time over the large changes in absolute values between 1990 and 2000.

  4. Wow it looks like positivity about the future is what drives people to have more children. Good thing we are doing nothing to tackle the real issues and instead doing everything we can to make the rich more powerful and wealthy

  5. Need to stack them in order for this to make sense or add labels for the age.

  6. Next time, let’s make the 14 and under crowd a more distinct color from adults. I was very concerned for a moment.

  7. It’s amazing how modern humans need cup holders in their cars otherwise they’d die of dehydration in the drive to buy more bottled water.

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