Release

Birth summary tables in England and Wales: 2015

Released: 13 July 2016 9:30am
Next release: July to August 2017 (provisional)

Summary

Annual births, fertility rates, sex ratios, mean age of mother and percentage of births to non-UK born mothers and births outside marriage.

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

Contact details

Name

Elizabeth McLaren

Email

vsob@ons.gov.uk

Phone

+44 (0)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

Pre-release access list

The phrase 'Pre-release Access' refers to the practice whereby official statistics in their final form, and any accompanying written commentary, are made available to an eligible person in advance of their publication. The rules and principles which govern pre-release access are featured within the Pre-release Access to Official Statistics Order 2008.

Besides ONS staff, the following persons are given pre-release access by the period indicated before release.

Access granted to
Organisation
Period
Assistant Private Secretary to Secretary of State for Health
Department of Health
24 hrs
Special Advisor to Secretary of State
Department of Health
24 hrs
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Care Quality
Department of Health
24 hrs
Assistant Private Secretary to Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Care Quality
Department of Health
24 hrs
Deputy Director, Children, Families and Communities
Department of Health
24 hrs
Statistical Officer
Department of Health
24 hrs
Press Officer
Department of Health
24 hrs
Senior Press Officer
Department of Health
24 hrs
Policy Officer
Department of Health
24 hrs