Dataset(s): Child and infant mortality (by year of death), England and Wales

Live births, stillbirths and linked infant deaths occurring annually in England and Wales, and associated risk factors.

Contact:
Population Life Events team

Release date:
11 May 2026

Next release:
To be announced

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Statistics are most often revised for 1 of 2 reasons:

  1. For certain statistics initial estimates are released with the expectation that these may be revised and updated as further data becomes available.
  2. Revisions may also be made when methods or systems are changed.

These types of planned revisions should not be confused with errors in released statistics, which are genuine mistakes. Such mistakes occur rarely and, when they do happen, corrections are made in a timely manner, announced and clearly explained to users in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics (Principle 2, Practice 7).

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Correction See correction
We have corrected errors in the 2023 edition of our workbook. In Tables 1 to 7, 9 to 19 and 21 to 24, one death from 2023 was registered as both a stillbirth and a neonatal death. This was caused by an error in the registration process. With this correction, the number of stillbirths and perinatal deaths decreased by one and the number of live births increased by one. In Table 3, stillbirths in Northern Ireland were mistakenly reported as 0, which affected the perinatal deaths and stillbirths in Northern Ireland and in the UK. This was caused by a coding error and has now been fixed. In Table 18, the data rows for some ethnic groups in Wales were mislabelled. This was caused by human error and has now been corrected. We apologise for these errors.
15 July 2026 13:00

Important notes and usage information

In table 16 of Child Mortality in England and Wales datasets for 2015 and 2016, due to a manual processing error, the under 1 day figure and 1 day and under 1 week figure for 2015 was incorrectly reported as 1,015 and 421 respectively rather than 1,016 and 420. We have corrected this error. You can see all previous versions of this data on the previous versions page. We apologise for any inconvenience.