Amendments
16 Aug 2022 – About page and Summary page text: the number of babies was reported incorrectly as 295,796. The text has been updated to: ”In 2020, there were 295,976 babies born to 291,712 mothers in Australia”.
22 July 2022 – Data tables containing preliminary data 2020 for Victoria (released 21 June 2022) were superceded.
9 Nov 2021 – An update was performed to replace data for smoking status in the ‘Smoking during pregnancy’ chapter and in other chapters where smoking status is a disaggregation.
2 Jun 2020 – A number of formatting issues in the data visualisations have been updated.
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”.