Birth estimates
type: Dataset
description: Time series of official live birth estimates for local authority districts and selected higher geographies in England and Wales from 1991-92 onward. Data are collated from the following sources: ONS mid-year population estimates components of change - local authority births for mid-year periods from 2001-2 onward Births and deaths by Lower Super Output Area (LSOA), England and Wales, 1991 to 1992 to 2016 to 2017 - ad hoc release of births by (2011) LSOA for mid-year periods from 1991-92 to 2016-17 Live births in England and Wales for small geographic areas - births by (2011) LSOA for calendar year period from 2013 onward. While calendar year births data for local authorities is available for local earlier periods from the ONS website, this data has not yet been included here due to the complications caused by: the lack of geography codes accompanying the data for the years of interest the decision to combine data for Hackney and City of London, and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly inconsistent formatting of the published tables A respository of the code used to collate these data is available on GitHub at: https://github.com/Greater-London-Authority/collate-birth-data This data is used as an input to Modelled estimates of recent births
issued: 2024-03-14T14:58:20+00:00
modified: 2025-08-19T09:31:56.951000+00:00
publisher: GLA Demography
keyword: births
keyword: demography
landing page: https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/birth-estimates-2lw83

births_rgn.csv
type: Distribution
description: Annual births for regions in England by date of year ending
issued: 2026-08-06T09:02:15.184446
modified: 2026-08-06T09:02:15.137879

births_ctry.csv
type: Distribution
description: Annual births for the countries of England and Wales by date of year ending
issued: 2026-08-06T09:02:15.184447
modified: 2026-08-06T09:02:15.137926

births_lad.rds
type: Distribution
description: Annual births for 2021 local authority districts in England and Wales by date of year ending. This file is saved in the RDS format native to the R programming language and is intended for use as an input to the process for modelling recent births: https://github.com/Greater-London-Authority/nowcast-birth-estimates
issued: 2026-08-06T09:02:15.184448
modified: 2026-08-06T09:02:15.138026

births_itl.csv
type: Distribution
description: Annual births for 2021 ITL 2 subregions in England and Wales by date of year ending
issued: 2026-08-06T09:02:15.184447
modified: 2026-08-06T09:02:15.137986

births_lad.csv
type: Distribution
description: Annual births for 2021 local authority districts in England and Wales by date of year ending
issued: 2026-08-06T09:02:15.184444
modified: 2026-08-06T09:02:15.137803