About this data

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

• 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).
• The legal definition of a stillbirth changed in October 1992, from 28 to 24 weeks of pregnancy. Counting stillbirths from 24 weeks adds more of them, so rates from 1993 are higher than they would have been under the old definition: the change alone raised the rate from 4.3 in 1992 to 5.7 in 1993.
• Figures are for deaths registered in each year.

This chart appears in Child and maternal health.