Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered am ar 26 Mawrth 2024.
John Hayes
Ceidwadwyr, South Holland and The Deepings
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many premature babies were born at between 22 and 24 weeks of gestation in the last five years.
Maria Caulfield
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health and Social Care, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The following table shows the number of all live births and those with gestational age of 22 weeks, 23 weeks and 24 weeks in England and Wales between 2017 and 2021, the most recent five-year period for which data is available:
Year | All live births | Live births with gestational age between 22 and 24 weeks, inclusive |
2017 | 678,728 | 972 |
2018 | 656,723 | 894 |
2019 | 639, 987 | 890 |
2020 | 613,231 | 784 |
2021 | 624,162 | 796 |
Source: Office for National Statistics Birth Characteristics
Note: Still births are not included as they are only measured from gestational age of 24 weeks onwards.
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