UK data on miscarriages and stillbirths

Release date:
9 July 2021

You asked

I would like the following statistical information:

  1. Miscarriages and stillbirths nationwide in the UK Dec 2020 total.

  2. Miscarriages and stillbirths nationwide in the UK Dec 2020 attributed to any COVID-19 vaccine.

  3. Miscarriages and stillbirths nationwide in the UK Feb 2021 total.

  4. Miscarriages and stillbirths nationwide in the UK Feb 2021 attributed to any COVID-19 vaccine.

We said

Thank you for your enquiry.

We are responsible for the production of Mortality data for England and Wales, this is driven by information collected from the death certificate at death registration. National Records Scotland (NRS) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) are responsible for statistics pertaining to Scotland and Northern Ireland. They can be contacted at foi@nrscotland.gov.uk and info@nisra.gov.uk respectively.

2020 Still Births

We have released Provisional births for 2020 in England and Wales in June 2021, however this data is provisional and may be changed due to a backlog of birth registrations at the GRO. We hope to release Live births for 2020 in September/October 2021.

YearNumber of stillbirths​​
​TotalMaleFemale
20202,4291,2911,138

Download this table

.xls .csv

2021 Still births

We have released a provisional first quarter publication for January to March 2021. Below is a 3-month comparison for 2021 to 2015.

Table 1: Summary of key birth statistics, 2015 to 2021
Number of births for the first quarter of each year, England and Wales
YearNumber of stillbirths²
​TotalMaleFemale
2021618322296
2020615332283
2019631322309
2018725385340
2017709380329
2016779407372
2015752411341

Download this table Table 1: Summary of key birth statistics, 2015 to 2021

.xls .csv

Still Births attributed to COVID-19 Vaccination

ONS has not undertaken this analysis and therefore consider this information not held.  

You can find figures published by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) here.

Miscarriages

We hold data on live births, still births and infant deaths, but not on miscarriages. NHS Digital may be better placed to answer your enquiry. They can be contacted via email at enquiries@nhsdigital.nhs.uk.

If you have any further enquiries, please contact Health.Data@ons.gov.uk

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