Number of live births and fetal deaths (stillbirths), by type of birth (single or multiple), 1991 to most recent year.

The number of babies born with no sign of life at 28 weeks or more of gestation, per 1,000 total births. The data includes a range of values from 2000 to 2019 for the toal number of babies born. This data is sourced from the UN Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation. When calculating the stillbirth rate, the UN IGME uses a model to identify global and national trends and compare between countries. In cases where counts of stillbirths and live births are available, the stillbirth rate is calculated as the number of stillbirths divided by the sum of the number of live births and number of stillbirths. For household surveys, stillbirth data are obtained from full pregnancy histories (PH) or reproductive calendars (RC). In the PH, women are asked to provide information on the duration of all lifetime pregnancies, the outcome of the pregnancy (e.g. miscarriage, stillbirth or live birth) and the date of birth or end of pregnancy. In the RC, women are asked about the duration and month of pregnancy end for pregnancies that did not end in a live birth in the last 60 months.The estimates are based on high quality nationally representative data including statistics from civil registration systems, medical birth and death registries, results from household surveys, population studies and censuses.The stillbirth rate estimates are produced in conjunction with national level agencies such as a country’s Ministry of Health, National Statistics Office, or other relevant agencies.

This is a publication on maternity activity in English NHS hospitals. This report examines data relating to delivery and birth episodes in 2022-23, and the booking appointments for these deliveries. This annual publication covers the financial year ending March 2023. Data is included from both the Hospital Episodes Statistics (HES) data warehouse and the Maternity Services Data Set (MSDS). HES contains records of all admissions, appointments and attendances for patients admitted to NHS hospitals in England. The HES data used in this publication are called 'delivery episodes'. The MSDS collects records of each stage of the maternity service care pathway in NHS-funded maternity services, and includes information not recorded in HES. The MSDS is a maturing, national-level dataset. In April 2019 the MSDS transitioned to a new version of the dataset. This version, MSDS v2.0, is an update that introduced a new structure and content - including clinical terminology, in order to meet current clinical practice and incorporate new requirements. It is designed to meet requirements that resulted from the National Maternity Review, which led to the publication of the Better Births report in February 2016. This is the fourth publication of data from MSDS v2.0 and data from 2019-20 onwards is not directly comparable to data from previous years. This publication shows the number of HES delivery episodes during the period, with a number of breakdowns including by method of onset of labour, delivery method and place of delivery. It also shows the number of MSDS deliveries recorded during the period, with breakdowns including the baby's first feed type, birthweight, place of birth, and breastfeeding activity; and the mothers' ethnicity and age at booking. There is also data available in a separate file on breastfeeding at 6 to 8 weeks. The count of Total Babies includes both live and still births, and previous changes to how Total Babies and Total Deliveries were calculated means that comparisons between 2019-20 MSDS data and later years should be made with care. Information on how all measures are constructed can be found in the HES Metadata and MSDS Metadata files provided below. In this publication we have also included an interactive Power BI dashboard to enable users to explore key NHS Maternity Statistics measures. The purpose of this publication is to inform and support strategic and policy-led processes for the benefit of patient care. This report will also be of interest to researchers, journalists and members of the public interested in NHS hospital activity in England. Any feedback on this publication or dashboard can be provided to enquiries@nhsdigital.nhs.uk, under the subject “NHS Maternity Statistics”.

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.

Stillbirths work dataset underlying the study findings.

2014–2018 Versus 2019–2023: clinical profile, diagnosis, management and outcome of 260 pregnant women with ST.

Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis output for association between stillbirth and independent variables.

Sheet 4. Summary of impacts of scaling up LiST interventions to achievable levels from baseline by 2019 and a 0.5 percentage point per annum increase in contraceptive prevalence. Summary of lives saved, life years gained, costs over five years and cost to life years gained ratios for all interventions where contraceptive prevalence increases by 0.5 percentage points per annum. Sheet 5. Summary of impacts of scaling up LiST interventions to achievable levels from baseline by 2019 and a one percentage point per annum increase in contraceptive prevalence. Summary of lives saved, life years gained, costs over five years and cost to life years gained ratios for all interventions where contraceptive prevalence increases by one percentage point per annum. (XLSX 27Â kb)