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Australia's mothers and babies

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Last updated: 22 Jul 2022
Topic: Mothers & babies
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2022) Australia's mothers and babies, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 10 August 2022.

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2022). Australia's mothers and babies. Retrieved from https://pp.aihw.gov.au/reports/mothers-babies/australias-mothers-babies

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Australia's mothers and babies. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 22 July 2022, https://pp.aihw.gov.au/reports/mothers-babies/australias-mothers-babies

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Australia's mothers and babies [Internet]. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2022 [cited 2022 Aug. 10]. Available from: https://pp.aihw.gov.au/reports/mothers-babies/australias-mothers-babies

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  • Contents
    • About
    • Summary
    • Demographics of mothers and babies
      • Key statistics and trends
      • Maternal age
      • Geography
      • Maternal country of birth
    • Antenatal period
      • Antenatal care
      • Smoking during pregnancy
      • Alcohol consumption during pregnancy
      • Body mass index
      • Maternal medical conditions
    • Labour and birth
      • Place of birth
      • Onset of labour
      • Method of birth
      • Analgesia
      • Anaesthesia
      • Presentation
      • Perineal status
    • Baby outcomes
      • Gestational age
      • Birthweight
      • Birthweight adjusted for gestational age
      • Apgar score at 5 minutes
      • Active resuscitation method
      • Baby length of stay in hospital
      • Admission to a special care nursery or neonatal intensive care unit
      • Preliminary perinatal deaths
    • Focus population groups
      • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mothers and babies
      • Teenage mothers and their babies
      • Older mothers and their babies
      • Mothers who have multiple births and their babies
    • Stillbirths and neonatal deaths
    • Maternal deaths
    • Technical notes
      • Data sources
      • Perinatal national minimum data set items
      • State and territory perinatal data collections
      • Data timeliness
      • Data quality and availability
      • Definitions
      • Methods
      • Acknowledgements
      • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Data
  • Related material
  • Archived content

Demographics of mothers and babies

This section provides a snapshot of mothers and babies in Australia – how many there were, where they lived, what country they came from and how old they were, and how these factors have changed over time.

Key statistics and trends

A snapshot of mothers and babies in Australia over time

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Maternal age

Mothers age in completed years at the birth of her baby

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Geography

Distribution of mothers by state and territory, Primary Health Network, remoteness area and SA3

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Maternal country of birth

The country where a mother was born

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Last updated 7/07/2022 v20.0

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