Briefing 2026: Counting miscarriages in the UK

The number of miscarriages that occur each year in the UK are not systematically measured or reported. While some miscarriagerelated data are collected across the four nations, coverage remains limited and does not provide a comprehensive picture of miscarriage prevalence. 


There are opportunities to improve data collection and enable some reporting of miscarriage. However, these 
efforts are focused mainly on midtrimester losses, captured only after women and birthing people are booked into maternity services.  


Further opportunities
, such as linking to primary care data and conducting population surveys, could support the development of robust, populationwide estimates of miscarriage prevalence.