Registered births, birth rate and sex ratio by state, Australia, 1975 onwards

Births registered each year since 1975 in each state and territory, with male and female births, nuptial and ex-nuptial births, the crude birth rate and the sex ratio, from the ABS. Updated yearly.

This is the 2026-10-03 version of this dataset on publicdata.au, with 4,500 rows and 7 fields. The same version is kept at https://publicdata.au/d/au-births-by-state/v/2026-10-03/ in 9 formats, with every earlier version and a query API. Each Zenodo version of this record is one publicdata.au version.

The data is published by Australian Bureau of Statistics under CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The licence requires this attribution:

Australian Bureau of Statistics, Registered births, summary by state or territory of usual residence, 1975 onwards (BIRTHS_SUMMARY), ABS Data Explorer, sourced 3 October 2026, https://explore.data.abs.gov.au/vis?df[ds]=ABS_ABS_TOPICS&df[id]=BIRTHS_SUMMARY&df[ag]=ABS&df[vs]=1.0.0, licensed under CC BY 4.0.

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