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Data Provider: Welsh Government Live births by delivery setting, local health board and local authority
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YearCalendar year [Filtered]
Area Code[Filter]
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Delivery settingWelsh or English hospital, home birth or other [Filter]
[Collapse]AreaLocal authority area, Local Health Board, and Wales [Filter]
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Click here to sortWelsh hospitalClick here to sortEnglish hospitalClick here to sortBorn In TransitClick here to sortHomebirthClick here to sortNot statedClick here to sortTotal
[Collapse]Wales25,576716445416726,944
Wales[Collapse]Betsi Cadwaladr University5,0813695101265,582
Betsi Cadwaladr UniversityIsle of Anglesey47941102496
Gwynedd91492232950
Conwy7712.The data item is not applicable173793
Denbighshire76212.The data item is not applicable116791
Flintshire1,005297.The data item is not applicable2661,334
Wrexham1,1504521471,218
[Collapse]Powys TeachingPowys58625935610914
[Collapse]Hywel Dda University2,787.The data item is not applicable112322,913
Hywel Dda UniversityCeredigion486.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable30.The data item is not applicable516
Pembrokeshire894.The data item is not applicable142.The data item is not applicable937
Carmarthenshire1,407.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable5121,460
[Expand]Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable
[Collapse]Swansea Bay3,189283133,233
Swansea BaySwansea2,007.The data item is not applicable62322,038
Neath Port Talbot1,18222811,195
[Collapse]Cardiff & Vale University4,688.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable89164,793
Cardiff & Vale UniversityVale of Glamorgan1,092.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable2161,119
Cardiff3,596.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable68103,674
[Expand]Cwm Taf University.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable
[Collapse]Cwm Taf Morgannwg3,746747523,834
Cwm Taf MorgannwgBridgend1,181.The data item is not applicable13811,221
Rhondda Cynon Taf2,015433312,056
Merthyr Tydfil5503.The data item is not applicable4.The data item is not applicable557
[Collapse]Aneurin Bevan University5,44335236255,568
Aneurin Bevan UniversityCaerphilly1,457241411,478
Blaenau Gwent621.The data item is not applicable39.The data item is not applicable633
Torfaen8643461878
Monmouthshire64824212.The data item is not applicable686
Newport1,8536102131,893
[Expand]Not stated5644.The data item is not applicable43107
[Collapse]Non-Welsh[Expand]Non-Welsh254.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable254

Metadata

Title

Live births by Local Health Board of residence and place of birth

Last update

August 2025 August 2025

Next update

July 2026 (provisional)

Publishing organisation

Welsh Government

Source 1

National Community Child Health Database (NCCHD), Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW)

Contact email

stats.healthinfo@gov.wales

Designation

National Statistics

Lowest level of geographical disaggregation

Local authorities

Geographical coverage

Wales

Languages covered

English and Welsh

Data licensing

You may use and re-use this data free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government License - see http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence

Statistical quality

From 1st April 2019 health service provision for residents of Bridgend local authority moved from Abertawe Bro Morgannwg to Cwm Taf. For more information see the joint statement from Cwm Taf and Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Boards (see weblinks). The health board names have changed with Cwm Taf University Health Board becoming Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board and Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board becoming Swansea Bay University Health Board.
Data for Abertawe Bro Morgannwg and Cwm Taf are available for previous years in this table by selecting the tick boxes in the Area drop-down box.

More detailed information on the sources of data and analyses in this statistical release are provided in the quality report: https://www.gov.wales/maternity-and-birth-statistics-quality-report

General description

These statistics are derived from the National Community Child Health Database (NCCHD). This data source is provided to the Welsh Government by Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW).

The NCCHD was established in 2004 and consists of anonymised records for all children born, resident or treated in Wales and born after 1987. The database brings together data from local Community Child Health System databases which are held by local health boards (LHBs), and its main function is to provide an online record of a child’s health and care from birth to leaving school age. The statistics used in this release are based on the data recorded at birth and shortly after birth.
Full details of every data item available on both the Maternity Indicators dataset and National Community Child Health Database are available through the NHS Wales Data Dictionary: http://www.datadictionary.wales.nhs.uk/#!WordDocuments/datasetstructure20.htm

Data collection and calculation

The NCCHD includes records of all children born in, resident in or receiving services in their relevant local health boards. This means the database contains some information for some children not currently residing in Wales; however, unless otherwise stated, all statistics produced from data sourced from this database is filtered to only include those children born in Wales.

The NCCHD records both live and stillbirths, however this analysis refers only to live births.

Frequency of publication

Annual

Data reference periods

2007-2024

Users, uses and context

These statistics are used in a variety of ways. Some examples of these are:
• advice to Ministers
• to inform debate in the Welsh Parliament and beyond
• to make publicly available data on child health statistics in Wales
• monitoring service delivery
• policy development
• providing advice on infant feeding choices

The main users are:
• Ministers, policy officials and the Members Research Service
• local health boards
• the public
• the research community
• students, academics and universities
• Public Health Wales and other NHS organisations
• Breastfeeding support organisations

Rounding applied

No rounding applied

Revisions information

NCCHD is a live database, meaning health boards can amend data for any period. For the statistics in this release, DHCW take data extracts from a single point in time, for the latest calendar year. This means that if data extracts are taken for previous time periods, they may differ to the data which is published as it may have been revised by health boards. Welsh Government will not make revisions to historical data unless errors are discovered.

Keywords

Child health; home birth; welsh hospital; english hospital