More information about our births data is available within our ‘Adoptions, Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships in Scotland, 2025’ report, our births background information page, and within the notes in the ‘Notes’ tab within the downloadable workbook.
This time series data will be useful for users who would like the same data for a series of different years to understand trends over time.
The tables available in the workbook below are:
Table BT.01: Number of births by sex, Scotland, 1855 to 2025
Table BT.02: Number of Births by mother's age, Scotland, 1945 to 2025
Table BT.03: Number of births registered by month of registration, Scotland, 1954 to 2025
Table BT.04: Number of births by sex, year and council area, 1991 to 2025
Table BT.05: Number of births by sex, year and post-April 2014 NHS Board area, 1991 to 2025
Table BT.06: Number of births by council area, year and mother’s age, 1991 to 2025
Table BT.07: Number of births by post-April 2014 NHS Board area, year and mother’s age 1991 to 2025
Table BT.08: Crude birth rate and fertility rates by Council area, 1991 to 2025
Table BT.09: Crude birth rate and fertility rates by post-April 2014 NHS Board area, 1991 to 2025
Table BT.10: Age-specific fertility rates by Council area, 1991 to 2025
Table BT.11: Age-specific fertility rates by post-April 2014 NHS Board area, Scotland, 1991 to 2025
Table BT.12: Number of birth re-registrations, Scotland, 1935 to 2025
