Births, already in decline in the first years of the 20th century, dropped through the years of WW1 bottoming out at one-third of the level at the start of the century in 1918. A mini baby boom is evident in 1920, the highest number of births in a single year in the record. The decline takes hold again until 1933.
Don't get taken in my the erratic variations during WW2. 1939 - 40, 1943 - 45 and 1949 all have large numbers of entries not yet in the FreeBMD database.
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I'm very interested in the data on births and death registrations in the UK since the 1830s but have been unable to find a page which provides me with the data. Any chance you have a link or document which contains the year-by-year births and deaths? it would be much appreciated!
The immediate source that comes to mind, undoubtedly not the best, is the database statistics for FreeBMD at http://freebmd.org.uk/cgi/EntryCounts.pl
Expect a post with a better source soon.
thank you very much for the link! it's exactly what I've been looking for.
my parents have been tracing back family trees, and I've had a budding interest in demographics, so I was keen to see just what the country looked like, demographically when my great-grandparents were born.
very surprised by the sharp drops in births. strange to see how the structure changed, as England and Wales underwent demographic transition. thanks again! :)
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