FOI reference: FOI-2025-2792
You asked
I am after a dataset (xlsx / csv / parquet / whatever suits you best) with two headers / fields: date and number of live births. Ideally it would go back 120 years simply giving the total number of live births on each day.
We said
Thank you for your request.
We are responsible for birth statistics for England and Wales. For figures pertaining to births and deaths registered in Scotland and Northern Ireland you will need to contact National Records of Scotland and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Centre respectively.
Our Births in England and Wales release provides the number of live births occurring each day from January 1995 to December 2023. Please see table 12 of the release. Table 1 provides the number of births occurring annually from 1938. Please note that these figures exclude stillbirths.
We have not created any statistics on the number of live births occurring each day prior to 1995. However, we may be able to create a custom output to suit some of your needs. Information on live births along with other special extracts and tabulations of births and deaths data for England and Wales are available to order, subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreements of costs, in line with our charging policy.
Please contact Health.Data@ons.gov.uk for more information.