Australia’s mothers and babies 2014

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Introduction

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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 2014 - in brief"

Mothers

• In 2014, 307,844 women gave birth in Australia—an increase of 18% since 2004 (252,871)
• The rate of women giving birth increased from 59 per 1,000 women of reproductive age (15–44 years) in 2004 to 63 per 1,000 in 2014.
• The average age of all women who gave birth continues to rise and was 30.2 in 2014,
• The proportion of mothers aged 35 and over has increased from 20% in 2004 to 22% in 2014.
• The proportion of mothers aged under 25 has decreased from 19% to 16%.
• 98% (300,282) of women gave birth in hospitals,
• 205,927 of women (67%) had a vaginal birth and 101,896 (33%) had a caesarean section.

Maternal Conditions

• One in 9 women (33,280 or 11%) who gave birth in 2014 smoked at some time during their pregnancy, a decrease from 15% in 2009.
• 8 per 1,000 mothers had chronic hypertension and 34 per 1,000 had gestational hypertension;
• 10 per 1,000 had pre‐existing diabetes and 83 per 1,000 had gestational diabetes.

Babies

• 312,548 babies born in 2014—an increase of 18% since 2004.
• 310,330 were live births and 2,200 were stillbirths (less than 1%) (birth status is not recorded for a small number of births).
• stillbirth rate of 7 deaths per 1,000.
• Slightly more babies were male (51%) than female (49%). The sex ratio was 105.5.
• 1 in 19 babies (5.3% or 16,572) were Indigenous in 2014 (based on Indigenous status of the baby).
• average gestational age for all babies was 38.6 weeks, with the vast majority (91%) born at term (37–41 weeks).
• Pre‐term birth (before 37 completed weeks’ gestation) is associated with a higher risk of adverse neonatal outcomes.

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Cite this page: Hill, M.A. (2023, December 2) Embryology Australia’s mothers and babies 2014. Retrieved from https://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/embryology/index.php/Australia%E2%80%99s_mothers_and_babies_2014

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