Data Introduction

The following sections provide information on: 

  • Fertility rates  
  • Birth outcomes: including miscarriage, termination, live births, stillbirths and neonatal deaths 
  • Maternal death 
  • Infant feeding and breastfeeding

Information on teenage pregnancies are on the sexual health page.

Information on alcohol, tobacco and drugs use during pregnancy are on the respective substance misuse pages (see here  for relevant links).

Please note: If you require the most up-to-date data available, please check the data sources directly as new data may have been published since these data pages were last updated. Although we endeavour to ensure that the data pages are kept up-to-date, there may be a time lag between new data being published and the relevant ScotPHO web pages being updated.