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The age of the mothers is of great significance to their fecundity.
According to calculations based upon the census of 1875, and upon
the number of births during 1875 and 1876, the following numbers
of births occurred in Norway in the several age-classes. (For
purposes of comparison, similar calculations according to
Sundbärg, for Sweden, Denmark and Germany, for the years 1881—1890,
are subjoined.)

Per 100 married women in each age-class, there was the
following annual number of births:

Age[1]	Norway	Sweden	Denmark	Germany
15—20	54.80	50.80	72.90	59.30
20—25	48.00	44.80	49.10	50.40
25—30	40.70	37.50	39.10	40.50
30—35	35.00	32.20	31.50	29.90
35—40	28.90	25.60	24.00	22.10
40—45	17.60	14.60	12.00	10.20
45—50	4.00	2.20	1.30	1.30

It thus appears that fecundity in Norway, as in other lands,
is greatest in the youngest age-class, but that it diminishes much
more slowly in Norway than in the other countries. The youngest
class, however, is not very numerous in Norway, and does not
yield even 1 per cent of the total number of births. The greatest
number of these, namely rather more than a fourth part, are by
mothers in the 30—35 years’ class, and an almost equally large
number in the preceding 5 years, while not quite an eighth part
came in the 20—25 years’ class. The largest number of fathers
— about 25 per cent — were also between 30 und [[** sic = and]] 35 years of
age, while about 20 per cent came in the preceding and succeeding
periods of 5 years.

The average age of the parents, which shows the average
distance between the generations, was, in the case of legitimate
children in Norway, in the period 1881—1885, 35.60 years between
the fathers and their children, and 31.90 years between the mothers
and their children. In the case of illegitimate births, the fathers’
average age during the same 5 years was 28.20, and the mothers’ 26.40.

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