Highlights
Child and infant mortality in England and Wales: 2017
What's in the bulletin?
- There were 2,636 infant deaths (aged under 1 year) that occurred in England and Wales in 2017, a decrease of 0.6% compared with 2,651 in 2016.
- There were also fewer live births in England and Wales in 2017 and this meant the infant mortality rate increased to 3.9 deaths per 1,000 live births compared with 3.8 in 2016.
- The infant mortality rate decreased from 12.0 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1980 to a record low of 3.6 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2014; since then it has increased to 3.9 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2017.
Cause of death coding in mortality statistics, software changes: January 2020
The differences in mortality data for England and Wales coded to ICD-10, produced by changing from cause of death coding using the software IRIS 4.2.3 to the updated version MUSE 5.5.Datasets related to Stillbirths
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Birth characteristics
Annual live births in England and Wales by sex, ethnicity and month, maternities by place of birth and with multiple births, and stillbirths by age of parents and calendar quarter.
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Births in England and Wales: summary tables
Annual summary statistics on live births and stillbirths, by sex, age of mother, whether inside marriage or civil partnership, percentage of non-UK-born mothers, birth rates and births by mothers' area of usual residence.
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Child mortality (death cohort) tables in England and Wales
Live births, stillbirths and linked infant deaths occurring annually in England and Wales, and associated risk factors.
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Births in England and Wales: 2018
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Child and infant mortality in England and Wales: 2017
Stillbirths, infant and childhood deaths occurring annually in England and Wales, and associated risk factors.
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Deaths registered in England and Wales: 2018
Registered deaths by age, sex, selected underlying causes of death and the leading causes of death. Contains death rates and death registrations by area of residence and single year of age.
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Births by parents’ characteristics in England and Wales: 2016
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Impact of the implementation of IRIS software for ICD-10 cause of death coding on stillbirth and neonatal death statistics: England and Wales
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Cause of death coding in mortality statistics, software changes
The differences in mortality data for England and Wales coded to ICD-10, produced by changing from cause of death coding using the software IRIS 4.2.3 to the updated version MUSE 5.5.
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UK drops in European child mortality rankings
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