About this data
- 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.
- 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).
- ONS publishes separate figures for England and for Wales from 2010. Figures for Scotland go to 2025; Northern Ireland's 2025 figures had not been published by October 2026.
- Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have far fewer births than England (each has between around 20,000 and 50,000 a year), so their rates rise and fall more from year to year.
- Figures are for deaths registered in each year.
This chart appears in Child and maternal health.