15 facts and stats about giving birth in Britain

As One Born Every Minute returns to Channel 4 for its eighth series, we uncover some must-know facts about babies and birth in England and the UK using recent statistics from BabyCentre, the NCT and the Office for National Statistics

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On Jul 22, 2015

There were 695,233 live births in the UK in 2014

That's 1.3 babies born every minute

The average age of new mothers in 2014 was 30.2

More babies are born inside of marriage (52.6%) or civil partnership than outside of them (47.4%), though the gap is closing.

4% of women give birth on their due date

The first stage of labour can take anything from 2 to 20 hours

In England, 26.2% of babies are born via caesarean section

And 25% of babies are induced

30% of women have an epidural during labour or after the birth

6% of women don’t use any pain relief in labour

Just 2.4% of babies are born at home

37% of new mums stay in hospital for one to two days

While 9% of new mums stay in hospital for five or more days

Baby girls are more likely to have an unusual name than baby boys

There were more than 35,000 girls names and more than 27,000 boys names in 2013.

Royal names William, Harry and George all made the 2013 top ten boys names list

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