Iceland sees more newborns in 2014

Iceland recorded 4,375 live births in 2014, including 2,233 boys and 2,142 girls, said Statistics Iceland on Friday.

The newly published figures show that there was a small increase in the number of births from 2013 when 4,326 children were born. The total fertility rate in 2014 was 1.93, much lower than its peak of 4.27 in 1960.

The age of mothers at the birth of a child has increased in recent decades. The mean age of primiparas in 2014 was 27.3 years old, compared with less than 22 in the 1970s. The average age of first-time mothers was 30 years old in 2014. The age-specific fertility rate is highest in the age groups 25-29.

Two thirds of the children born in 2014 were born out of wedlock as 53.4 percent of children were born to parents in a consensual union and 17.0 percent born to parents who were not living together. A third were born to married couples. Endit