Release: Birth Cohort Tables for Infant Deaths, England and Wales, 2009

Presents data on infant deaths that have been linked to their corresponding birth record. These birth cohort tables represent babies born in a given calendar year who died before their first birthday.

A Quality and Methodology Information document (145.2 Kb Pdf) for the birth cohort tables for infant deaths is available on the ONS website.

Child mortality statistics presents statistics on infant deaths and childhood deaths occurring annually in England and Wales. Gestation specific mortality  presents data on live births and infant deaths by gestational age, while Infant and perinatal mortality by social and biological factors provides statistics on infant and perinatal mortality by father's occupation, mother's country of birth, birthweight, mother's age. Unexplained deaths in infancy includes both sudden infant deaths and deaths for which the cause remained unknown or unascertained.

For data for other UK countries please see the latest infant death statistics for Northern Ireland and the latest infant death statistics for Scotland.

The Births summary tables, England and Wales provide key summary statistics for live births in England and Wales.

More general information on the collection, production and quality of mortality data is available in Mortality metadata (775.7 Kb Pdf) . 

We welcome feedback on the content, format and relevance of this release. User Engagement in the Health and Life Events Division (95.1 Kb Pdf) outlines the divisional approach to user engagement.