Maps available for the theme: Life & Death

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RATE Government Region District/Unitary Authority
Fertility Rate 1861 - 2021
1861 - 2021
Infant Mortality Rate 1861 - 2021
1861 - 2021
Standardised Mortality Ratio 1861 - 2021
1861 - 2021

This theme covers births, marriages and deaths, including changing causes of death. Unlike most of our themes, it is based not on the Census but on the closely related system for registering births, marriages and deaths, established in 1837.

In this first version of the system, the main emphasis is on infant mortality, the number of children dying before their first birthday as a proportion of all births.

These selections from historical census reports are on the theme of Life & Death.

CensusArea CoveredReport TitleSection Title
Intro Great Britain Guide to Census Reports: Great Britain 1801-1966 Selected Subjects: Physical and Mental Infirmity
Intro Great Britain Guide to Census Reports: Great Britain 1801-1966 Selected Subjects: Fertility of Marriage
Intro Great Britain Guide to Census Reports: Great Britain 1801-1966 Selected Subjects: Dependency and Orphanhood
1811 Great Britain Abstracts of the Answers and Returns: Preliminary Observations Parish Register Abstract
1821 Great Britain Abstracts of the Answers and Returns: Preliminary Observations Parish Register Abstract
1821 Ireland Abstracts of the Answers and Returns: Enumeration Abstract Parish Registers
1831 Great Britain Abstracts of the Answers and Returns: Enumeration. Parish Register Abstract
1861 England and Wales General Report The Blind and the Deaf-and-Dumb
1871 England and Wales General Report The Blind, Deaf & Dumb, Idiots or Imbeciles, Lunatics, and Inmates
1881 England and Wales General Report Infirmities
1891 England and Wales General Report Physical infirmities
1901 England and Wales General Report, with Appendices Physical Infirmities
1911 England and Wales General Report with Appendices Infirmities
1911 Scotland Occupations by birthplace, Nationalities, Infirmities, Fertility The Infirm
1911 Scotland Occupations by birthplace, Nationalities, Infirmities, Fertility Fertility of Marriage
1921 England and Wales General Report with Appendices Dependency, Orphanhood and Fertility