Low Birthweight Babies
(asked on 3rd April 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many babies have been born at a low birth weight in each year since 2010.
This question was answered on 9th April 2019
The number of babies born with low birthweight, less than 2,500g, in England in each year from 2010-16 are shown in the following table. Data for 2017 and 2018 are not available.
Year | Number of births with low birthweight |
2010 | 50,035 |
2011 | 50,726 |
2012 | 50,516 |
2013 | 48,657 |
2014 | 48,284 |
2015 | 48,442 |
2016 | 48,112 |
Notes:
- Source: Child health profiles, Fingertips: https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/child-health-profiles/data#page/3/gid/1938133257/pat/6/par/E12000004/ati/102/are/E06000015/iid/92531/age/29/sex/4
- Data includes both live and stillbirths.
- Not all births are recorded with a valid birth weight.