Birth Rate

Cabinet Office written question – answered at on 12 September 2014.

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Photo of Luciana Berger Luciana Berger Shadow Minister (Public Health)

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what estimate he has made of the number of births that will take place in England in each of the next 10 years.

Photo of Brooks Newmark Brooks Newmark The Parliamentary Secretary, Cabinet Office

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.

Letter from Glen Watson, dated September 2014

As Director General for the Office for National Statistics I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary question to the Minister for the Cabinet Office asking how many births will take place in England in each of the next 10 years.

Projected numbers of births are included in the official national population projections. The most recent national population projections are based on mid-year population estimates for 2012 and were published in 2013. The projected number of births in England is given in the table below.

2012-based national population projections: projected births, England
Year to Projected births
Mid-2015 692,000
Mid-2016 694,000
Mid-2017 696,000
Mid-2018 696,000
Mid-2019 697,000
Mid-2020 696,000
Mid-2021 695,000
Mid-2022 693,000
Mid-2023 692,000
Mid-2024 690,000

National population projections are not forecasts and do not attempt to predict the impact of future government policies or changing economic circumstances. They provide an indication of the future size and age structure of the population that might arise if recent demographic trends were to continue. More information on population projections can be found at:

www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/npp/national-population-projections/index.html

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