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.

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The Health Survey for England series was designed to monitor trends in the nation's health; estimating the proportion of people in England who have specified health conditions, and the prevalence of risk factors and behaviours associated with these conditions. The surveys provide regular information that cannot be obtained from other sources. The surveys have been carried out since 1994 by the Joint Health Surveys Unit of NatCen Social Research and the Research Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at UCL. Each survey in the series includes core questions, e.g. about alcohol and smoking, and measurements (such as blood pressure, height and weight, and analysis of blood and saliva samples), and modules of questions on topics that vary from year to year. The trend tables show data for available years between 1993 and 2016 for adults (defined as age 16 and over) and for children. The survey samples cover the population living in private households in England. In 2016 the sample contained 8,011 adults and 2,056 children and 5,049 adults and 1,117 children had a nurse visit. We would very much like your feedback about whether some proposed changes to the publications would be helpful and if the publications meet your needs. This will help us shape the design of future publications to ensure they remain informative and useful. Please answer our reader feedback survey on Citizen Space which is open until 18 June 2018.

The research is a part of an ongoing programme of research looking into the involvement of local actors in the presentation and representation of their cities. This links to a growing body of research on participatory place branding that looks at how multiple actors can work independently and collectively to share and enact the narratives they assign to the city. This covers the overlaps in the place branding, placemaking and policy activities, providing an in-depth exploration of actors’ participation in the place agenda. Actors included in this research were involved in marketing, planning, placemaking, policy making, economic development, environmental activism, community engagement, heritage protection, and the visitor economy.

The funded fieldwork looked specifically at how these actors were able to collaborate on key areas of a medium-sized UK city’s place agenda. Linked to this, the research covers actors’ perceptions of the place and their interactions with each other.

The way cities, regions and nations are branded is changing. Instead of communicating images with scripted logos, slogans and taglines, there are calls for branding to centre on the perceptions and activities of the people who live, work, and invest within its boundaries. Building on these changes, my PhD research showed how different groups perceived and prioritised their city and examined the extent these groups can participate in branding activities.

A part of this fellowship involved supplementary data collection. I supplemented and strengthened my PhD findings by focusing on how multiple city actors work together to develop and coordinate branding strategies within another medium sized UK city. This covers overlaps in the place branding, placemaking and policy activities, providing an in-depth exploration of actors’ participation in the place agenda.

The research data covers the following areas: - Multiple actors’ perceptions of the city and its identity - Stakeholder participation in the place agenda - Overlaps between place branding, placemaking and policy making - Engagement and collaboration across multiple city actors - Potential areas of agreement and disagreement across multiple city actors - Focus on sustainability as a positioning device for cities and city actors - Changes to cities (specifically their participatory place branding) during the Covid-19 pandemic

Participants included in this research were involved in marketing, planning, placemaking, policy making, economic development, environmental activism, community engagement, heritage protection, and the visitor economy.

Between 2021 and 2023, life expectancy for women in the United Kingdom was highest in the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea, at 86.46 years, while for men it was highest in Hart, at 83.44.

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The median annual earnings in the United Kingdom was 37,430 British pounds per year in 2024. Annual earnings varied significantly by region, ranging from 47,455 pounds in London to 32,960 pounds in the North East. Along with London, two other areas of the UK had median annual earnings above the UK average; South East England, and Scotland, at 39,038 pounds and 38,315 pounds respectively. Regional Inequality in the UK Various other indicators highlight the degree of regional inequality in the UK, especially between London and the rest of the country. Productivity in London, as measured by output per hour, was 26.2 percent higher than the UK average. By comparison, every other UK region, except the South East, fell below the UK average for productivity. In gross domestic product per head, London was also an outlier. The average GDP per head in the UK was just over 37,000 pounds in 2023, but for London it was almost 64,000 pounds. Again, the South East's GDP per head was slightly above the UK average, with every other region below it. Within London itself, there is also a great degree of inequality. In 2023, for example, the average earnings in Kensington and Chelsea were 964 pounds per week, compared with 675 pounds in Barking and Dagenham. Wages continue to grow in 2025 In March 2025, weekly wages in the UK were growing by around 5.6 percent, or 1.8 percent when adjusted for inflation. For almost two years, wages have grown faster than inflation after a long period where prices were rising faster than wages between 2021 and 2023. This was due to a sustained period of high inflation in the UK, which peaked in October 2022 at 11.1 percent. Although inflation started to slow the following month, it wasn't until June 2023 that wages started to outpace inflation. By this point, the damage caused by high energy and food inflation had led to the the worst Cost of Living Crisis in the UK for a generation.

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