National Medical Birth Register

Socialstyrelsen (Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare)
HDB-0437

The Medical Birth Register covers all pregnancies resulting in childbirth in Sweden since 1973, recording data on pregnancies, labor, deliveries, and newborn health. Access to individual-level data is available to researchers and statistics users through the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare.

Category
Open dataset
Access
Credentialed
Region
Nordic — Sweden
Coverage
Sweden, all pregnancies resulting in live births and stillbirths, 98% completeness
Data types
birth records, pregnancy data, maternal health, neonatal outcomes

Record HDB-0437 · last verified 2026-08-23 · listed in Open datasets

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