Down’s syndrome diagnoses in England and Wales from 1989/90 to 2007/8 according to year of diagnosis and outcome

Financial year of diagnosis	Diagnoses						Outcomes of antenatal diagnoses† (%)
	All	Antenatal	Live births		Unknown outcomes		Terminations	Miscarriages /stillbirths	Live births
			Reported	Estimated*
1989-90	1075	329	752	752	6		93.2	2.5	4.3
1990-1	1106	386	741	742	14		88.4	4.3	7.3
1991-2	1168	445	744	745	11		88.5	4.4	7.1
1992-3	1128	514	625	626	18		92.1	3.2	4.6
1993-4	1218	595	645	646	11		93.2	2.1	4.8
1994-5	1234	622	628	629	24		91.6	3.2	5.2
1995-6	1214	655	582	583	19		91.2	2.8	6.0
1996-7	1352	758	607	608	17		92.7	2.8	4.5
1997-8	1395	733	680	682	32		91.7	2.6	5.7
1998-9	1266	684	610	612	30		91.6	2.0	6.4
1999-00	1348	765	608	610	38		91.9	1.9	6.2
2000-1	1387	822	591	595	70		92.4	1.3	6.3
2001-2	1394	833	588	594	102		91.1	2.7	6.2
2002-3	1481	908	603	609	106		92.4	2.1	5.5
2003-4	1476	877	638	643	79		89.6	2.8	7.6
2004-5	1735	1039	716	725	143		89.8	3.8	6.4
2005-6	1843	1108	746	757	175		91.6	2.8	5.6
2006-7	1825	1108	729	740	176		91.3	3.2	5.5
2007-8	1843	1112	730	743	214		92.8	2.5	4.8
Total	26488	14293	12563	12640	1285		91.5	2.7	5.8

*Estimated live births includes 6% of unknown outcomes.

†Calculated as a proportion of all known outcomes.