About this data

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS), Child and infant mortality in England and Wales: 2024

• Infant deaths are deaths of babies before their first birthday. Neonatal deaths are in the first 28 days of life; postneonatal deaths are from 28 days to one year. Rates are per 1,000 live births.
• Areas are small neighbourhoods (of around 1,500 people), grouped into tenths by the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, which combine income, employment, health, education, housing, crime and living environment. Babies are counted by where the mother lives.
• A stillbirth is a baby born with no signs of life at 24 weeks of pregnancy or later (28 weeks before October 1992). The stillbirth rate is per 1,000 total births (live births and stillbirths).

This chart appears in Child and maternal health.