Births in England and Wales by Characteristics of Birth 2, 2013

17 Nov 2014 03:32 PM

Key Findings

• There were 698,512 live births in England and Wales in 2013, of which 340,129 were girls and 358,383 were boys.
• The percentage of women giving birth at home remained at 2.3% in 2013, unchanged from 2012.
• 15.6 out of every 1,000 women giving birth had a multiple birth in 2013, down from a peak of 16.1 in 2011.
• 10,783 mothers had a multiple birth in 2013; 10,593 women had twins, 187 had triplets and 3 had quads and above (multiple births include stillbirths).
• Women aged 45 and over were most likely to have a multiple birth (95.0 out of every 1,000 women giving birth in this age group had a multiple birth).

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