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Births in England and Wales: 2025
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- There were 585,396 live births in England and Wales in 2025, a 1.6% decrease from 594,677 in 2024.
- For the first time, we have produced provisional birth rates at country level using the 2025 projected populations; these estimate a decrease in Total Fertility Rate (TFR) from 1.41 children per woman in 2024 to 1.39 for England and Wales in 2025, the final rates will be released later in 2026.
- Provisional Standardised Mean Age (SMA) indicates a slight increase to 31.1 years of age for mothers and 34.0 years of age for fathers in 2025 (from 31.0 and 33.9 in 2024, respectively); both groups have seen overall increases since 1975, when SMA was 26.4 years of age for mothers, and 29.5 years of age for fathers.
Datasets related to Cymarebau beichiogi a ffrwythlondeb
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Quarterly conceptions to women aged under 18 years, England and Wales
Quarterly statistics on conceptions to women aged under 18 years resident in England and Wales; numbers and rates are by regions and other local authority areas.
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Conceptions in England and Wales
Annual statistics on conceptions to residents of England and Wales, with numbers and rates by age group including women aged under 18 years, inside and outside marriage or civil partnership, and area of usual residence.
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Childbearing for women born in different years
Annual analysis of fertility by cohort for women born in England and Wales. Cohort fertility analysis allows the fertility experience of a group of women sharing the same birth year (a “cohort”) to be traced through time and compared with other cohorts.
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Conceptions in England and Wales
Annual statistics on conceptions to residents of England and Wales, with numbers and rates by age group including women aged under 18 years, inside and outside marriage or civil partnership, and area of usual residence.
Publications related to Cymarebau beichiogi a ffrwythlondeb
Statistical bulletins
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Births in England and Wales: 2025
Annual live births, stillbirths, maternities, and fertility rates in England and Wales by factors including parent age, parent country of birth, ethnicity, deprivation, gestational age and birthweight.
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Conceptions in England and Wales: 2022
Annual statistics on conceptions to residents of England and Wales, with numbers and rates by age group including women aged under 18 years.
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Births in England and Wales by Characteristics of Birth 2: 2013
Home births and multiple births in England broken down by mothers' age group.
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Childbearing for women born in different years, England and Wales: 2023
The changing composition of families over time, comparing the fertility of women of the same age and the number of children they have had.
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Births by parents’ country of birth, England and Wales: 2023
Annual statistics on live births including countries of birth for non-UK-born mothers and fathers.
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Cohort Fertility: 2012
Childbearing by the year of birth of mothers including trends in average family size, the age at which women give birth, and childlessness.
Methodology related to Cymarebau beichiogi a ffrwythlondeb
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