Release

Births in England and Wales: 2022 (refreshed populations)

Released: 23 February 2024 9:30am
Next release: To be announced

Summary

Revision of previous Births in England and Wales: 2022 publication and dataset with updated populations and corrections. Associated User Guide publication will also be updated.

Publications

Data

  • Births in England and Wales: summary tables

    Live births and stillbirths annual summary statistics, by sex, age of mother, whether within marriage or civil partnership, percentage of non-UK-born mothers, birth rates and births by month and mothers' area of usual residence.

Methodology

  • User guide to birth statistics

    Supporting information for birth statistics, which present figures on births that occur and are then registered in England and Wales. Figures are based on information collected at birth registration.

Contact details

Name

Megan Munro and Meg Lyons

Email

Health.Data@ons.gov.uk

Phone

+44 1329 444110

About the data

Accredited Official Statistics

These are accredited official statistics. They have been independently reviewed by the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) and found to comply with the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics. This broadly means that the statistics:

  • meet user needs
  • are presented clearly and accessibly
  • are produced using appropriate data and sound methods
  • are managed impartially and objectively in the public interest