Elizabeth McLaren
Vital Statistics Outputs Branch
Telephone: +44 (0)1329 444110
Categories: Births and Fertility, Live Births and Stillbirths, Maternities, Live Births, Population
Frequency of release: Annually
Language: English
Geographical coverage: England and Wales
Geographical breakdown: Country
Presents data on birth registrations in England and Wales by characteristics of the mother. This package contains birth statistics by age of mother, type of registration (within marriage, joint, sole), and mean age of mother by birth order.
For information on data quality, legislation and procedures relating to birth statistics, please see Births Metadata (375.7 Kb Pdf) and Births Summary Quality Report. (117.8 Kb Pdf)
In addition, there is an interactive mapping tool which enables trends in fertility to be analysed at the local level.
There is a lookup table (44.1 Kb Pdf) to show how the current birth tables relate to former Series FM1 tables.
The Vital Statistics: Population and Health Reference Tables provide quarterly and annual births data for the United Kingdom and its constituent countries.
For data for other UK countries please see the latest birth statistics for Northern Ireland and the latest birth statistics for Scotland.
We welcome feedback on the content, format and relevance of this release. The User Engagement in the Health and Life Events Division (95.1 Kb Pdf) outlines the divisional approach to user engagement.
These National Statistics are produced to high professional standards and released according to the arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.