About this data

Source: NHS England, NHS Maternity Statistics, England 2024-25 (Hospital Episode Statistics)

• Financial year April 2024 to March 2025. Shares are of deliveries where the method of delivery was recorded.
• Deprivation is measured by the English Indices of Deprivation for the small area where the mother lives, grouped into tenths.
• Deliveries where the mother's ethnicity was not stated or not known are not shown.

This chart appears in Child and maternal health.