{"metric":"natural_change_local_hist","title":"Natural change by local authority, 2012 to 2024","topic":"population","unit":"people","measure_type":"estimate","geography":"K02000001","comparison_method":"previous_period","source":{"publisher":"ONS","publication":"Components of population change, mid-2011 to mid-2024 back series (ONS MYEB, sheet MYEB3)","landing_url":"https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/datasets/populationestimatesforukenglandandwalesscotlandandnorthernireland"},"definition":"Births minus deaths for each UK local authority over the year from one mid-year to the next, as the ONS publishes the difference, from the ONS back series rebased to Census 2021 (workbook MYEB, sheet MYEB3). Every figure is the local authority's own published cell; there is no national row in this source.","does_not_measure":"What the mid-year estimates said at the time: this series is rebased to Census 2021 and deliberately differs from the figures originally published for these years. It is not a count of events registered in a calendar year.","links":{"page":"/population/natural-change-local-hist","series":"/api/metrics/natural_change_local_hist/series","vintages":"/api/metrics/natural_change_local_hist/vintages"}}