About this data

Source: ONS, Child and infant mortality in England and Wales (2022, 2023 and 2024 editions)

• 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.
• The baby's ethnic group is recorded by the midwife or health professional at the birth notification. Babies whose ethnicity was not stated (around 3% of births) are not shown, but are included in the figure for all babies.
• Rates are worked out from the deaths and births in 2022, 2023 and 2024 combined, because single years have few deaths in some groups.

This chart appears in Child and maternal health.