Today, a significantly higher proportion of children are born outside of marriage than in the 1960s - as shown in our racing bars video based on OECD data. In 1960, the proportion of births outside of marriage in Germany, for example, was 7.6 percent. By 2020, it had risen to 33.1 percent - meaning that one in three children in Germany is born outside of marriage. In the Netherlands, this trend has been even more rapid, rising from 1.4 percent in 1960 to 51 percent in 2020. A similar trend has b