Multiple birth statistics

You asked

I would like to know live birth gestation figures for multiple births only, specifically triplets and quadruplets. As well as any other data that is specifically for multiple births, particularly higher order multiple births.

We said

Thank you for your enquiry.

We publish Birth Characteristics including maternities with multiple births:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/datasets/birthcharacteristicsinenglandandwales

Our publication Pregnancy and ethnic factors influencing births and infant mortality contains figures for live births by multiplicity and gestational age at birth (Table 5):

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/causesofdeath/datasets/pregnancyandethnicfactorsinfluencingbirthsandinfantmortalityenglandandwales

We have also previously published adhoc tables for live births by gestation and multiplicity for 2015 (Table 4):

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/stillbirths/adhocs/006942livebirthsandstillbirthsbygestationbirthweightmultiplicityandregioninfantdeathsbygestationbirthweightmultiplicityregionandcausegroupengland2015

Special extracts and tabulations of births data for England and Wales are available to order (subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreements of costs, where appropriate). We recommend that you contact the Vital Statistics team directly in order to discuss your data requirements in more detail. Such enquiries should be made to: vsob@ons.gov.uk

As this information is already available to you via this route, we consider that s.21(1) applies to this request and the information does not have to be supplied under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act. S.21(1) is an absolute exemption and no consideration of the public interest test needs to be applied.