Provisional births and deaths data from ONS

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Basic information about birth rates and infant mortality is becoming less significant as an outcome measure, but is still very important in terms of planning and for 'gold standard' international comparisons. The latest annual bulletin from ONS is on:http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/vsob1/death-reg-sum-tables/2011--provisional-/sb-births-and-deaths-first-release--2011.htmlHeadline points:

Live births

There were 723,913 live births in England and Wales in 2011, compared

with 723,165 in 2010 (a rise of 0.1 per cent) and 594,634 in 2001. The small rise in 2011 represents a continuation of the increasing numbers of live births recorded since 2001. During this period the number of live births has risen by 22 per cent from 594,634 in 2001 despite a small fall between 2008 and 2009.Infant, perinatal and neonatal deathsIn 2011 there were 3,154 infant deaths (under 1 year of age) registered in England and Wales, a slight increase from 2010, resulting in a rate of 4.4 deaths per thousand live births compared with 4.3 in 2010 and 5.4 in 2001. Similar to stillbirths and perinatal deaths (see below) this rise is partly attributable to the increase in the total number of births (both live births and stillbirths) in 2011.In 2011 the neonatal mortality rate (deaths under 28 days) remained the same as in 2010 at 3.0 deaths per thousand live births. The postneonatal mortality rate (deaths between 28 days and one year) decreased to 1.3 deaths per thousand live births from 1.4 in 2010.The perinatal (stillbirths and deaths under 7 days) mortality rate was 7.6 per thousand total births in 2011 compared with 7.4 in 2010. best wishes Cowleysarahcowley183@...http://myprofile.cos.com/S124021COn