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title: ABS registered births
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# ABS registered births

Registered births in Australia each year since 1975 from the ABS Births collection, by the age of the mother, the age of the father and the state or territory of usual residence, as the ABS publishes them in its Data Explorer.

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## Tables

- [Registered births by age of mother and nuptiality, Australia, 1975 onwards](https://publicdata.au/d/au-births-by-age-of-mother/): Births registered in Australia each year since 1975 by single year of the mother's age and by whether the parents were married, from the ABS. Updated yearly. 7,400 rows, 6 fields. Markdown: https://publicdata.au/d/au-births-by-age-of-mother/index.md
- [Registered births by age of father and nuptiality, Australia, 1975 onwards](https://publicdata.au/d/au-births-by-age-of-father/): Births registered in Australia each year since 1975 by single year of the father's age and by whether the parents were married, from the ABS. Updated yearly. 7,050 rows, 6 fields. Markdown: https://publicdata.au/d/au-births-by-age-of-father/index.md
- [Registered births, birth rate and sex ratio by state, Australia, 1975 onwards](https://publicdata.au/d/au-births-by-state/): Births registered each year since 1975 in each state and territory, with male and female births, nuptial and ex-nuptial births, the crude birth rate and the sex ratio, from the ABS. Updated yearly. 4,500 rows, 7 fields. Markdown: https://publicdata.au/d/au-births-by-state/index.md

## Attribution and citation

Australian Bureau of Statistics, Registered births, nuptiality by age of mother, 1975 onwards (BIRTHS_AGE_MOTHER), ABS Data Explorer, sourced 3 October 2026, https://explore.data.abs.gov.au/vis?df[ds]=ABS_ABS_TOPICS&df[id]=BIRTHS_AGE_MOTHER&df[ag]=ABS&df[vs]=1.0.0, licensed under CC BY 4.0.

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