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Oregon Vital Statistics Annual Reports Archive

Oregon published its first Vital Statistics Annual Report in 1905. For over 100 years, the report was produced in hard-copy format. In 2009, the Center for Health Statistics (CHS) stopped printing paper copies of the report and offering it in downloadable form from our website.

In 2020, CHS began transitioning our annual report into a more modern and interactive format. the data dashboards. These dashboards rely less on narrative descriptions of the data and focus instead on presenting the data though interactive data visualizations.

Annual Report Archive

Until 2017, the Oregon Public Health Division published the Oregon Vital Statistics Annual Report as two volumes. An annual compilation of vital statistics data by county was also produced until 2014.

Final vital statistics data after 2017 are available as interactive data dashboards. Visit each vital record type from the Vital Records Home Page, View Vital Statistics column menu to see the various data dashboards available.

​This archive contains historical annual reports dating from 1905. Early reports were published biennially and include information on births, deaths, and other public health matters.

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Report

Publication year

Data year(s)

First Biennial Report

1905

May 1903 - Sep 1904

Second Biennial Report

1907

Oct 1904 - Sep 1906

Third Biennial Report

1909

Oct 1906 - Sep 1908

Fourth Biennial Report

1911

Oct 1908 - Sep 1910

Fifth Biennial Report

1913

Oct 1910 - Sep 1912

Sixth Biennial Report

1915

Oct 1912 - Sep 1914

Seventh Biennial Report

1917

Oct 1914 - Sep 1916

Eighth Biennial Report

1919

Oct 1916 - Sep 1918​


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Birth Outcomes

​In 2011 the Oregon Legislature passed House Bill 2380, which required the Oregon Public Health Division to:

  1. ​ Add two questions to the Oregon Birth Certificate to determine planned place of birth and birth attendant, and

  2. Report annually on birth outcomes, including death, by location and attendant type. These data are available as part of the Center for Health S​tatistics' Annual Report.

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In addition, the Oregon Public Health Division has produced two special reports on birth outcomes for infants intended to deliver out of hospital.


Out-of-Hospital Births in Oregon, 2012-2017

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This summary provides data and trends on out-of-hospital births in Oregon and related health outcomes, including birth and maternal characteristics, birth attendants, payment sources, perinatal outcomes, and maternal deaths.


2012 Oregon Birth Outcomes by Planned Birth Place and Attendant

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In 2013, the Oregon Public Health Division published a special study of deaths in term infants intended to deliver out of hospital. Key findings are based on 2012 Oregon occurrence birth and death certificates, and the perinatal case fatality review.