In 1971, just 18% of 30-year-olds had no children – today the figure has risen to 50%, reports the ONS
Record numbers of women are reaching the age of 30 child-free, new official figures have shown.
More than half (50.1%) of women in England and Wales born in 1990 were without a child when they turned 30 in 2020, the first generation to do so, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
