UK birth statistics by age group

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Please provide UK birth statistics by age group, for example ages 20 to 29, 30 to 39, 40 to 49 years?

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Thank you for your request.

The number of live births by age of mother for England and Wales can be found here and then aggregated into the specified age groups:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/datasets/birthsummarytables

Please see Table 2a.

Birth statistics for Scotland can be found here:

https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/statistics-by-theme/vital-events/general-publications/vital-events-reference-tables/2016/section-3-births

Please see Table 3.01b for the number of live births by age of mother.

Birth statistics for Northern Ireland can be found here:

https://www.nisra.gov.uk/publications/registrar-general-annual-report-2016-births

Please see Table 3.1 for the number of live births by age of mother.

Special extracts and tabulations of births data for England and Wales are available to order (subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreements of costs, where appropriate). Such enquiries should be made to: vsob@ons.gov.uk. Please note that the latest available annual data we have available is for 2016. We recommend that you contact the Vital Statistics team directly in order to discuss your data requirements in more detail.