Oregon Center for Health Statistics

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.

Until 2017, the Vital Statistics Annual Report was issued in two volumes. Volume 1 presented data on births, abortions and teen pregnancy. See Volume 2 for data on deaths (all ages) and perinatal deaths from 1995-2017.

Until 2017, the Vital Statistics Annual Report was issued in two volumes. Volume 2 presented data on deaths (all ages) and perinatal deaths. See Volume 1 for data on births, induced terminations of pregnancy, and teen pregnancy from 1995-2017.

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.

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

Birth Outcomes

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

Add two questions to the Oregon Birth Certificate to determine planned place of birth and birth attendant, and
Report annually on birth outcomes, including death, by location and attendant type. These data are available as part of the Center for Health Statistics' Annual Report.

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

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

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.