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Fertility rate among women 35 to 44 years old, Canada, 1926 to 2006

Year	35 to 39 years old	40 to 44 years old
Year	per thousand women
1926	114.6	50.6
1927	113.8	49.3
1928	110.9	48.7
1929	104.8	46.1
1930	106.7	46.5
1931	103.0	43.9
1932	100.4	43.6
1933	94.8	39.2
1934	92.9	39.1
1935	92.5	37.2
1936	89.9	36.2
1937	85.2	34.6
1938	84.7	33.9
1939	82.9	32.5
1940	81.7	32.6
1941	79.9	31.5
1942	82.9	32.3
1943	88.1	32.2
1944	88.1	33.0
1945	90.2	33.5
1946	93.1	34.4
1947	93.0	34.1
1948	88.9	32.6
1949	88.8	31.5
1950	87.7	30.7
1951	86.4	30.8
1952	87.0	30.5
1953	87.7	31.0
1954	88.2	32.2
1955	89.3	32.0
1956	89.3	30.6
1957	90.2	30.4
1958	87.2	28.7
1959	86.9	28.4
1960	84.2	28.4
1961	81.1	28.5
1962	77.1	27.5
1963	75.8	25.9
1964	72.0	25.1
1965	65.9	22.0
1966	57.5	19.1
1967	50.9	15.9
1968	44.9	13.8
1969	42.7	12.5
1970	39.0	11.3
1971	33.3	9.3
1972	28.7	7.6
1973	25.3	6.3
1974	22.8	5.4
1975	21.4	4.8
1976	20.8	4.3
1977	20.2	3.6
1978	18.8	3.5
1979	19.1	3.3
1980	19.1	3.1
1981	19.2	3.2
1982	19.9	3.1
1983	20.3	3.0
1984	21.3	3.0
1985	21.6	3.0
1986	22.3	3.2
1987	23.3	3.3
1988	24.7	3.6
1989	26.0	3.7
1990	27.7	3.9
1991	28.4	3.9
1992	29.0	4.2
1993	29.7	4.4
1994	30.6	4.7
1995	31.5	4.9
1996	32.6	5.1
1997	32.6	5.2
1998	32.9	5.3
1999	33.8	5.6
2000	34.1	5.9
2001	35.7	6.1
2002	36.4	6.2
2003	38.7	6.5
2004	40.1	6.9
2005	42.1	7.1
2006	45.0	7.4
Sources: Statistics Canada, Health Statistics Division and Demography Division.