Table 4.5 Percent Distribution of All Women and Currently Married Women by number of Children Ever Born,
          and Mean Number of Children Ever Born and Mean Number of Living Children, According to Age Group, Philippines 2003
          (Children ever born and living)

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                                                                                             Mean        Mean
                              Number of children ever born                     Number   number of   number of
       -------------------------------------------------------------               of    children      living
Age       0     1     2     3     4     5     6    7    8    9   10+   Total    women   ever born    children
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                                                    ALL WOMEN
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15-19  93.9   5.1   1.0   0.1   0.0   0.0   0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0    100.0    2,648        0.07        0.07
20-24  55.5  24.1  14.9   4.4   0.9   0.1   0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0    100.0    2,209        0.71        0.69
25-29  27.2  22.4  22.4  15.6   8.0   2.9   0.7  0.7  0.0  0.0  0.0    100.0    2,034        1.70        1.64
30-34  15.9  13.1  21.3  18.5  13.5   9.2   4.2  2.6  1.3  0.3  0.2    100.0    1,954        2.70        2.58
35-39  10.2   9.3  15.6  19.7  16.3  10.2   7.0  5.4  2.7  1.9  1.8    100.0    1,873        3.53        3.34
40-44   7.6   8.1  11.2  17.9  18.3  11.5   7.9  6.1  4.5  3.0  3.9    100.0    1,564        4.10        3.81
45-49   6.5   5.8  11.1  16.0  16.0  12.3   9.7  7.2  5.5  3.5  6.4    100.0    1,351        4.57        4.20

Total  36.5  12.9  13.5  12.0   9.2   5.7   3.5  2.6  1.6  1.0  1.4    100.0   13,633        2.18        2.05
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                                              CURRENTLY MARRIED WOMEN
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15-19  40.6  47.5  11.0   0.6   0.3   0.0   0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0    100.0      239        0.73        0.70
20-24  16.5  43.7  29.0   8.7   1.7   0.3   0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0    100.0    1,095        1.36        1.31
25-29   9.7  26.2  28.4  19.8  10.1   3.8   1.0  0.9  0.0  0.0  0.0    100.0    1,548        2.15        2.06
30-34   6.6  12.8  23.9  20.9  15.4  10.6   4.9  2.9  1.5  0.3  0.3    100.0    1,663        3.05        2.91
35-39   4.1   8.5  16.3  21.4  18.0  11.1   7.4  6.0  3.0  2.0  2.1    100.0    1,633        3.84        3.63
40-44   2.4   7.2  12.0  18.9  19.3  12.3   8.1  7.0  5.2  3.3  4.3    100.0    1,341        4.42        4.12
45-49   2.5   5.0  11.3  17.0  16.7  13.2  10.0  7.6  5.7  3.7  7.3    100.0    1,152        4.86        4.46

Total   7.7  17.3  20.1  17.9  13.6   8.5   5.1  3.9  2.4  1.4  2.1    100.0    8,671        3.21        3.02

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Source:  2003 National Demographic and Health Survey
         National Statistics Office & Department of Health

Page last updated:  September 11, 2006
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