Australia's mothers and babies data visualisations

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Last updated: 29 May 2020

Author: AIHW

AIHW

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2020. Australia's mothers and babies data visualisations. Cat. no. PER 101. Canberra: AIHW. Viewed 18 January 2021, https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/mothers-babies/australias-mothers-babies-data-visualisations

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2020). Australia's mothers and babies data visualisations. Retrieved from https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/mothers-babies/australias-mothers-babies-data-visualisations

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Australia's mothers and babies data visualisations. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 29 May 2020, https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/mothers-babies/australias-mothers-babies-data-visualisations

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Australia's mothers and babies data visualisations [Internet]. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2020 [cited 2021 Jan. 18]. Available from: https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/mothers-babies/australias-mothers-babies-data-visualisations

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) 2020, Australia's mothers and babies data visualisations, viewed 18 January 2021, https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/mothers-babies/australias-mothers-babies-data-visualisations

The health of both mothers and babies can have important life-long implications. In 2018, there were 303,029 babies born to 298,630 mothers in Australia. Explore the characteristics and health of those mothers and their babies through interactive data visualisations, and in-depth information and trends on the antenatal period, labour and birth, and outcomes for babies at birth.

These data visualisations are designed to accompany the Australia's mothers and babies 2018—in brief report.

Cat. no: PER 101

Findings from this report:

6.7% of liveborn babies were low birthweight in 2018
13% of women who gave birth in 2018 had gestational diabetes
In 2018, 298,630 women gave birth to 303,029 babies
74% of mothers received antenatal care in the first trimester in 2018 compared with 63% in 2010

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Amendments

5 Aug 2019 - The key fact box within the data visualisation has been updated to show the latest data (2017) for the following pages:

Smoking
Place of birth
Gestational age
Birthweight
Stillbirths and neonatal deaths

27 Nov 2019 - The Admission to a special care nursery or neonatal intensive care unit key fact in the data visualisation has been updated to read “1 in 5 babies” rather than “1 in 6 babies”.

2 June 2020 - A number of formatting issues in the data visualisations have been updated.

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