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This is part of Madrid Mayor José Luis Martínez-Almeida natality plan aimed at trying to help families with the practical challenges to having children.—Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Nov. 2025 National Center for Health Statistics, 2017–2021 final natality data.—Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2023 Seventeen states have a younger average age of a mother giving birth than Ohio, and almost all of them have the same or higher increase in the birth rate, according to the CDC natality database.—Zachary Smith, cleveland, 13 Nov. 2022 The team, made up of researchers in the United Kingdom and the United States, analyzed data from the National Vitals Statistics System natality files.—Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2022