More babies born outside marriage or civil partnership for 1st time in England and Wales

Births registered outside marriage or civil partnerships in England and Wales have outnumbered those registered within them for the first time. The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), for 2021, show 624,828 live births in the two nations. Of these, 320,713 (51.3%) were registered to women not wed or in a civil partnership.