Vital Statistics - Birth Database

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This is an administrative survey that collects demographic information annually from all provincial and territorial vital statistics registries on all live births in Canada. 2017 birth and stillbirth data for Yukon are not available. Due to improvements in methodology and timeliness, the duration of data collection has been shortened compared to previous years. As a result, there may have been fewer births and stillbirths captured by the time of the release. The 2017 data are therefore considered preliminary.
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  • 1. Estimates of the components of natural increase, quarterly
    Table: 17-10-0059-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Quarterly
    Description: Components of natural increase, quarterly: births and deaths.
    Release date: 2026-06-17
  • 2. Health Fact Sheets
    Journals and periodicals: 82-625-X
    Geography: Canada
    Description: Health fact sheets will include short, focused, single-theme analysis documents. Over the course of the series, analysis will include topics on: Health conditions, lifestyle, well-being, disability, prevention and detection of disease, deaths, pregnancy and birth, health care services and environmental factors.
    Release date: 2026-05-20
  • 3. Leading causes of death, infants
    Table: 13-10-0395-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Rank, number of deaths, percentage of deaths, and mortality rates for the leading causes of infant death (under one year of age), by sex, 2000 to most recent year.
    Release date: 2026-01-13
  • 4. Infant deaths and mortality rates, by sex
    Table: 13-10-0712-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Number of infant deaths and infant mortality rate, by age (neonatal and post-neonatal) and sex, 1991 to most recent year.
    Release date: 2026-01-13
  • 5. Infant deaths and mortality rates, by age group
    Table: 13-10-0713-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description:

    Number of infant deaths and infant mortality rates, by age group (neonatal and post-neonatal), 1991 to most recent year.

    Release date: 2026-01-13
  • 6. Perinatal mortality (late fetal deaths and early neonatal deaths)
    Table: 13-10-0714-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description:

    Number of perinatal deaths (late fetal deaths and early neonatal deaths) and perinatal mortality rate, 1991 to most recent year.

    Release date: 2026-01-13
  • 7. Number of maternal deaths and maternal mortality rates for selected causes
    Table: 13-10-0756-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Annual
    Description:

    The number of maternal deaths and maternal mortality rates for selected causes, 2000 to most recent year.

    Release date: 2026-01-13
  • 8. Health-adjusted life expectancy, by sex and income quintile
    Table: 13-10-0971-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE), by sex, age group, income quintile and geography, annual for the provinces and two-year average for the territories. Estimates are expressed in years and represent the average number of years a person could expect to live in good health based on current health status and mortality conditions.
    Release date: 2026-01-09
  • 9. Fetal deaths (20 weeks or more of gestation) and late fetal deaths (28 weeks or more of gestation)
    Table: 13-10-0427-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description:

    Number of fetal deaths (stillbirths - 20 weeks or more of gestation) and late fetal deaths (stillbirths - 28 weeks or more of gestation), 1991 to most recent year.

    Release date: 2025-12-12
  • 10. Live births and fetal deaths (stillbirths), by type of birth (single or multiple)
    Table: 13-10-0428-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description:

    Number of live births and fetal deaths (stillbirths), by type of birth (single or multiple), 1991 to most recent year.

    Release date: 2025-12-12
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  • 41. Contribution of potentially avoidable causes of death to changes (over 1 and 5 years) in life expectancy at birth, by sex
    Table: 13-10-0516-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Health region, Local health integration network
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description:

    Life expectancy at birth is decomposed by potentially avoidable causes of death. Changes in mortality rates for a given cause of death change over time and contribute to the overall change in life expectancy.

    Release date: 2019-05-30
  • 42. Infant and perinatal mortality, by sex, three-year average, Canada, provinces, territories, health regions and peer groups
    Table: 13-10-0078-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Health region, Local health integration network, Peer group
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description:

    This table contains 3552 series, with data for years 2000/2002 - 2010/2012 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (148 items: Canada; Newfoundland and Labrador; Eastern Regional Integrated Health Authority, Newfoundland and Labrador; Central Regional Integrated Health Authority, Newfoundland and Labrador; ...);  Sex (3 items: Both sexes; Males; Females);  Infant or perinatal mortality (2 items: Infant mortality; Perinatal mortality);  Characteristics (4 items: Number; Rate; Low 95% confidence interval, rate; High 95% confidence interval, rate).

    Release date: 2018-11-29
  • 43. Infant and perinatal mortality, by sex, three-year average, Canada, provinces, territories, census metropolitan areas and metropolitan influence zones
    Table: 13-10-0110-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area part, Census metropolitan influenced zone
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description:

    This table contains 3672 series, with data for years 2000/2002 - 2010/2012 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (153 items: Canada; Newfoundland and Labrador; Census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations, Newfoundland and Labrador; Census metropolitan areas, Newfoundland and Labrador; ...); Sex (3 items: Both sexes; Males; Females); Infant or perinatal mortality (2 items: Infant mortality; Perinatal mortality); Characteristics (4 items: Number; Rate; Low 95% confidence interval, rate; High 95% confidence interval, rate).

    Release date: 2018-11-29
  • 44. Infant mortality, by birth weight
    Table: 13-10-0368-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Number of infant deaths and infant mortality rate, by birth weight and sex.
    Release date: 2018-11-29
  • 45. Birth-related indicators (low and high birth weight, small and large for gestational age, pre-term births), by sex, three-year period, health regions and peer groups
    Table: 13-10-0745-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Health region, Local health integration network, Peer group
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description:

    Number and rate, birth related indicators (low and high birth weight, small and large for gestational age, pre-term births), by sex, three-year period, Canada, provinces, territories, health regions and peer groups.

    Release date: 2018-10-18
  • 46. Birth-related indicators (low and high birth weight, small and large for gestational age, pre-term births), by sex, three-year period, Canada, provinces, territories, census metropolitan areas and metropolitan influence zones
    Table: 13-10-0746-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area part, Census metropolitan influenced zone
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description:

    This table contains 13770 series, with data for years 2000/2002 - 2010/2012 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (153 items: Canada; Newfoundland and Labrador; Census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations, Newfoundland and Labrador; Census metropolitan areas, Newfoundland and Labrador; ...);  Sex (3 items: Both sexes; Males; Females);  Indicators (5 items: Low birth weight (less than 2,500 grams); Small for gestational age; Pre-term births; High birth weight (4,500 grams or more); ...);  Characteristics (6 items: Number; Low 95% confidence interval, number; High 95% confidence interval, number; Percent; ...).

    Release date: 2018-10-18
  • 47. Low birth weight babies, by province and territory
    Table: 13-10-0404-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Number and proportion of low birth weight babies (less than 2,500 grams and 500 grams to less than 2,500 grams), by sex.
    Release date: 2018-09-28
  • 48. Life expectancy, at birth and at age 65, by sex, three-year average, Canada, provinces, territories, health regions and peer groups, inactive Archived
    Table: 13-10-0063-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Health region, Local health integration network, Public health unit
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description:

    This table contains 2754 series, with data for years 2005/2007 - 2012/2014 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (153 items: Canada; Newfoundland and Labrador; Eastern Regional Integrated Health Authority, Newfoundland and Labrador; Central Regional Integrated Health Authority, Newfoundland and Labrador; ...);  Age group (2 items: At birth; At age 65);  Sex (3 items: Both sexes; Males; Females);  Characteristics (3 items: Life expectancy; Low 95% confidence interval, life expectancy; High 95% confidence interval, life expectancy).

    Release date: 2018-08-22
  • 49. Low birth weight babies, by Inuit region Archived
    Table: 13-10-0398-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Every 5 years
    Description: Number and proportion of low birth weight babies (500 to less than 2,500 grams), by sex, for Canada and Inuit regions.
    Release date: 2018-07-11
  • 50. Live births and infant mortality, by Inuit region Archived
    Table: 13-10-0399-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Every 5 years
    Description: Numbers of live births, number of infant deaths and infant mortality rate, by sex, for Canada and Inuit regions.
    Release date: 2018-07-11
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  • 11. Health Indicators
    Journals and periodicals: 82-221-X
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    Over 80 indicators measure the health of the Canadian population and the effectiveness of the health care system. Designed to provide comparable information at the health region and provincial/territorial levels, these data are produced from a wide range of the most recently available sources.

    This Internet publication is produced by Statistics Canada and the Canadian Institute for Health Information.

    Release date: 2020-07-30
  • 12. Provincial variations in birth outcomes according to maternal country of birth, 2000 to 2016 Archived
    Articles and reports: 82-003-X202000400002
    Description:

    The objectives of this study are to describe recent provincial trends in the proportion of births to immigrant mothers and to determine whether disparities in birth outcomes according to immigrant maternal birthplace vary across the provinces. Statistics Canada's Vital Statistics-Birth Database (2000 to 2016) was used to extract 5,831,580 records on live births for the analyses.

    Release date: 2020-06-24
  • 13. Fertility rates and labour force participation among women in Quebec and Ontario Archived
    Articles and reports: 75-006-X201800154976
    Description:

    Using data from the Canadian Vital Statistics Birth Database and from the Labour Force Survey (LFS), this study examines the relationship between fertility rates and labour force participation among women aged 15 to 44 in Ontario and in Quebec between 1996 and 2016, two provinces that followed different paths with respect to parental leave benefits and affordable child care over the past two decades.

    Release date: 2018-07-18
  • 14. Study: Fertility rates and labour force participation among women in Quebec and Ontario 1996 to 2016 Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X201819919023
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2018-07-18
  • 15. Socioeconomic disparities in small-for-gestational-age birth and preterm birth Archived
    Articles and reports: 82-003-X201701154885
    Description:

    Based on a representative national dataset, this study examines associations between maternal education and income, their respective associations with the risk of small-for-gestational-age birth and preterm birth, and the influence of both socioeconomic measures simultaneously.

    Release date: 2017-11-15
  • 16. Birth outcomes among First Nations, Inuit and Métis populations Archived
    Articles and reports: 82-003-X201701154886
    Description:

    This study examines perinatal outcomes among First Nations, Inuit and Métis. The objective is to describe and compare rates of preterm birth, small-for-gestational age birth, large-for-gestational age birth, stillbirth and infant mortality in the three Indigenous groups and the non-Indigenous population.

    Release date: 2017-11-15
  • 17. Births and stillbirths 2014 Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X20172923066
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2017-10-19
  • 18. Health at a Glance
    Journals and periodicals: 82-624-X
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    Each issue of Health at a Glance consists of a short non-technical article on topics that feature statistics from health-related surveys and administrative data.

    Release date: 2017-04-26
  • 19. Study: Women in Canada: The girl child Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X201705315428
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2017-02-22
  • 20. The Girl Child Archived
    Articles and reports: 89-503-X201500114680
    Description:

    The chapter entitled "Women in Canada: The Girl Child" explores the diverse circumstances and experiences of girls aged 17 and under. The chapter describes the demographic characteristics of girls in Canada and presents several topics related to their well-being including: living arrangements, socioeconomic conditions, physical health and development, mortality, emotional and social health and development, child care, school readiness, education, and personal security. Where possible, comparisons are made between girls in different age groups, between girls and boys, and within several subpopulations.

    Release date: 2017-02-22
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