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Sex ratios at birth: statistics

This collection brings together all statistics recording sex ratios at birth.

The Department of Health and Social Care examines birth ratios for all mothers, by mother’s country of birth and by the ethnicity of the child.

Analyses of sex ratios at birth

Published 5 October 2015
Last updated 12 October 2023 + show all updates
  1. Added: 'Sex ratios at birth in the United Kingdom: 2017 to 2021'.

  2. Added 'Sex ratios at birth in the United Kingdom: 2016 to 2020'.

  3. Added 2015 to 2019 report.

  4. Added 'Sex ratios at birth in the United Kingdom: 2014 to 2018'

  5. Added 'Sex ratios at birth in Great Britain: 2012 to 2016' to collection.

  6. Added official statistics for gender ratios at birth in Great Britain, 2011 to 2015.

  7. First published.