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Hungarian women give birth earlier than the EU average
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Interestingly, Italians and the Spanish wait for the longest to have children in the European Union.
According to hvg, in 2013, an average woman gave birth to her first child at the age of 28.8, and this number grew to 29.3 by 2018. Based on the newest report by Eurostat, the mean age rising is typical in every member state, but to a different extent.
Data shows that the biggest change in this respect happened in Estonia where the mean age increased by 1.2 years between 2013 and 2018 (26.5 to 27.7), and they are followed by Latvia and Lithuania where the growth was 1.1 years.
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The change is the least in Slovakia and Sweden (0.2 years), as well as the Czech Republic and Slovenia (0.3 years). According to Eurostat’s report, Italian and Spanish women give birth to their first child the latest in the European Union – 31.2 years is the average in the former and 31 years in the latter. Women living in Luxemburg, Ireland, or Greece do so around the age of 30, while
the average woman has their first child under 27 only in Romania (26.7) and Bulgaria (26.2).
Promiscuity might be an answer.