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Introduction
This data summarised below is provided to help you as a clinician or researcher understand the current trends in reproductive medicine within Australia.
The information is based upon data from the publication "Australia's mothers and babies 2015 - in brief"[1]
Australia’s mothers and babies: 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | National Perinatal Statistics Unit | AIHW | Australian Statistics | birth |
Mothers
- In 2015, 304,268 women gave birth in Australia—an increase of 13% since 2005 (267,795 women).
- The rate of women giving birth has fluctuated between 2005 and 2015
- with a rate of 62 per 1,000 women of reproductive age (15–44 years) in 2015.
- The rate has declined from a peak of 66 per 1,000 women in 2007.
- The average age of all women who gave birth continues to rise and was 30.3 in 2015, compared with 29.7 in 2005.
- The median age was slightly higher, at 31 years in 2015.
- The average age has also increased for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mothers, from 24.9 in 2005 to 25.6 in 2015, with a median of 25 years.
- The proportion of mothers aged 35 and over has increased from 20% in 2005 to 22% in 2015.
- The proportion of mothers aged under 25 has decreased from 19% to 15%.
- The average age of rst‐time mothers also increased, from 28.1 in 2005 to 28.9 in 2015.
- In 2015, multiple pregnancies represented 1.5% of all pregnancies.
- Almost all multiple pregnancies (98%) were twins, while a small proportion (2%) were other multiples (triplets, quadruplets or higher).
Maternal Conditions
Babies
- There were 308,887 babies born in 2015—an increase of 12% since 2005.
- Slightly more babies were male (51%) than female (49%).
- In all, 306,725 were live births and 2,160 (less than 1%) were stillbirths (a baby born without signs of life).
- Birth status is not recorded for a small number of births.
• The stillbirth rate of 7 deaths per 1,000 births has not changed substantially since 2005, remaining between 7.0 and 7.8 per 1,000 births over this time.
- Around 1 in 18 babies (5.4% or 16,798) were Indigenous in 2015 (based on Indigenous status of the baby).
- 3 in 4 babies were born to mothers living in New South Wales, Victoria or Queensland.
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Cite this page: Hill, M.A. (2024, June 15) Embryology Australia’s mothers and babies 2015. Retrieved from https://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/embryology/index.php/Australia%E2%80%99s_mothers_and_babies_2015
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