Teen fathers made up one hundredth of one percent of all fathers to newborn children in 2016, marking the lowest number of teenage dads on record from data collected since 2005.
Only 2974 teenage males, between the ages of fifteen and nineteen, had children in 2016, compared to almost three hundred-thousand fathers of older age.
When examining all age ranges, the data presents itself as expected.
The amount of newborn children reaches its maximum at age 30-34, and drops off likely due to the decreased fertility in men and women as a result of aging.
The largest state in terms of population has the vast majority of births attributed to a father, and the others follow on, relatively proportionately to the population count in each state.
New South Wales leads the nation in total number of births from 2005 to 2016, sitting at over one million fathers to newborn children.
Victoria trails by just under three hundred-thousand, and is followed by Queensland, with just over one hundred-thousand less than Victoria.
However, the state figures become more interesting when focusing purely on the fifteen to nineteen age range.
The amount of teen fathers in Australia has seen steady decline since 2009, with steeper decline occurring from 2012-onwards.
Compared to the peak national figure in 2009, a year that saw 4459 teen fathers, the 2016 figure is down by one thousand, four hundred and eighty-five; a decrease of thirty-three percent.
Queensland, despite having a population only sixty-five percent of New South Wales, has consistently been very close to the latter in sheer volume of teenage fathers.
Victoria, on the other hand, has been comfortably below one thousand new teenage fathers per year, never actually reaching over eight hundred.
Comparatively, neither New South Wales nor Queensland have ever dipped below eight hundred teen fathers per year.
Queensland’s largest jump in teen-parent births was between 2006 and 2007, after which the rate continued to incline.
The increase saw Queensland have the highest number of teen-parent births per year on record in the given time period, in Australia.
Queensland also had a larger volume of teen-parent births between 2005 and 2016 than any other state in Australia, edging out New South Wales by almost five hundred births.
Even Victoria, a distant third in total teen-parent births, eclipsed Queensland in total births to fathers of all ages, by over one hundred-thousand.
