---
title: "Delayed Motherhood in Canada"
description: "This links to a FactTank posting about a new Statistics Canada report showing that birth rates for the first time are higher for women in their late 30s than in their early 20s. Most births in Canada are to women ages 30 and older; by contrast, in the U.S., 40% are."
date: "2013-07-10"
authors:
  - name: "D’Vera Cohn"
    job_title: "Former Senior Writer/Editor"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/dvera-cohn/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2013/07/10/17519/"
categories:
  - "Birth Rate & Fertility"
  - "Fertility"
---

# Delayed Motherhood in Canada

The trend toward delayed motherhood has produced dramatic results in Canada, where slightly more than half of newborns have mothers who are at least 30 years old, according to a new report by that country's statistics agency. By contrast, about 40% of births in the U.S. are to women ages 30 and older. [Read more at FactTank.](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2013/07/10/in-canada-most-babies-now-born-to-women-30-and-older/)