--- title: Birth, death and marriage registrations by month, ACT resource: https://publicdata.au/d/act-bdm-registrations/ publisher: Access Canberra, City and Environment Directorate licence: CC BY 4.0 licence_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ version: 2026-10-01 rows: 597 fields: 3 source: https://www.data.act.gov.au/api/views/2n27-ed2y/rows.csv?accessType=DOWNLOAD source_sha256: 19d6667771d406f06c0f104839f969549ecb2294df87441f86d7db31f958050c language: en-AU operator: National Digital not_endorsed: true --- # Birth, death and marriage registrations by month, ACT The number of births, deaths, marriages and other life events the ACT registry registered each month since July 2017, one row per registration type and month. Published by Access Canberra, City and Environment Directorate under CC BY 4.0 and republished here in other formats, with cells typed and suppressed values made null. Access Canberra, City and Environment Directorate has not endorsed this site. Also called: ACT Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages registration data, Canberra birth registrations by month, ACT death and marriage registration counts. ## Download Latest version, redirects to `https://publicdata.au/d/act-bdm-registrations/v/2026-10-01/`: - csv: https://publicdata.au/d/act-bdm-registrations/latest/data.csv (21 KB) - xlsx: https://publicdata.au/d/act-bdm-registrations/latest/data.xlsx (18 KB) - json: https://publicdata.au/d/act-bdm-registrations/latest/data.json (52 KB) - parquet: https://publicdata.au/d/act-bdm-registrations/latest/data.parquet (7.2 KB) - sqlite: https://publicdata.au/d/act-bdm-registrations/latest/data.sqlite (49 KB) - duckdb: https://publicdata.au/d/act-bdm-registrations/latest/data.duckdb (100 KB) - ndjson: https://publicdata.au/d/act-bdm-registrations/latest/data.ndjson (51 KB) - arrow: https://publicdata.au/d/act-bdm-registrations/latest/data.arrow (7.1 KB) - csv.gz: https://publicdata.au/d/act-bdm-registrations/latest/data.csv.gz (2.9 KB) Pinned version 2026-10-01: `https://publicdata.au/d/act-bdm-registrations/v/2026-10-01/data.`. Dated versions never change. ## Query The query API returns only the rows you ask for, as JSON, NDJSON or CSV, from the same typed rows as the files. It needs no key. Rows: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/act-bdm-registrations/rows. Counts and sums: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/act-bdm-registrations/aggregate. - Rows: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/act-bdm-registrations/rows?limit=5 - Aggregate: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/act-bdm-registrations/aggregate?group=registration_type&metric=sum.registrations Each filter is `field=operator.value` in the query string, and every filter must match. A number or date field compares as a number or date, and a text field compares as text. Values are case-sensitive except with `ilike`. Prefix `not.` to negate a filter, as `not.eq.value`. Operators: `eq.value`, `neq.value`, `gt.value`, `gte.value`, `lt.value`, `lte.value`, `like.*text*`, `ilike.*text*`, `in.(a,b,c)`, `is.null`. - `select`: Fields to return, comma-separated. Every field when absent. - `order`: `field.asc` or `field.desc`, comma-separated. The publisher's row order when absent. - `limit`: Rows per page, 1 to 10,000. 100 when absent. - `offset`: Rows to skip. The `next` URL in each answer sets it for you. - `group`: On `aggregate`, fields to group by, comma-separated. - `metric`: On `aggregate`, `count`, `sum.field`, `avg.field`, `min.field` or `max.field`, comma-separated. `count` when absent. - `format`: `json`, `ndjson` or `csv`. JSON carries the provenance header, and the others carry it in response headers. Without a version the API answers from the newest loaded version, and that answer changes when the publisher releases again. Put `versions//` before `rows` or `aggregate` for an answer that never changes. `/api/v1/datasets//versions` lists the loaded versions. The API allows 60 requests in 10 seconds from one address. Above that it answers 429 for 10 seconds with a `Retry-After` header, a `RateLimit-Policy` header and a JSON body that gives the limit. Every API answer carries the same `RateLimit-Policy`. A client should wait the `Retry-After` seconds, or read the files, which have no limit. OpenAPI for this dataset: https://publicdata.au/d/act-bdm-registrations/openapi.json ## Explore Charts and dashboards in the browser: https://publicdata.au/d/act-bdm-registrations/explore/. A dashboard can be shared as a link or embedded. ## Smaller files - by `registration_type`: https://publicdata.au/d/act-bdm-registrations/v/2026-10-01/by/registration_type/index.json lists 6 files ## Fields | field | type | publisher's header | note | |---|---|---|---| | `month` | date | Date | The month the registrations were processed, as its first day. | | `registration_type` | string | Registration Type | | | `registrations` | integer | No | | ## Versions - 2026-10-01: 597 rows, 3 fields, sha256 19d6667771d4. https://publicdata.au/d/act-bdm-registrations/v/2026-10-01/ Machine-readable: https://publicdata.au/d/act-bdm-registrations/versions.json, https://publicdata.au/d/act-bdm-registrations/changes.json, https://publicdata.au/d/act-bdm-registrations/datapackage.json, https://publicdata.au/d/act-bdm-registrations/schema.json, https://publicdata.au/d/act-bdm-registrations/history.tar.zst ## Same subject, other publishers - [Births, deaths and marriages registered each month, New South Wales](https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-bdm-registrations-monthly/) (NSW) - [Popular baby names by year and sex, New South Wales](https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-popular-baby-names/) (NSW) - [Top three names registered for girls by council area, New South Wales](https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-top-baby-names-by-lga-female/) (NSW) - [Top three names registered for boys by council area, New South Wales](https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-top-baby-names-by-lga-male/) (NSW) - [Registered deaths by method of disposal each month, New South Wales](https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-bdm-disposal-methods-monthly/) (NSW) - [Registrable life events by financial year, Victoria](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-registered-events-by-financial-year/) (Vic) - [Deaths registered per month, Victoria](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-deaths-registered-by-month/) (Vic) - [Marriages registered per month, Victoria](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-marriages-registered-by-month/) (Vic) - [Births, deaths and marriages registered by calendar year, Victoria](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-registered-events-by-calendar-year/) (Vic) - [Deaths registered by suburb, Queensland, latest year](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-deaths-by-suburb/) (Qld) - [Deaths registered by residential postcode and quarter, Queensland, latest year](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-deaths-by-postcode-and-quarter/) (Qld) - [Births registered by mother's postcode, Queensland, latest year](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-births-by-mothers-postcode/) (Qld) ## Attribution and citation Access Canberra, ACT Government, Registration data from the ACT Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, https://www.data.act.gov.au/d/2n27-ed2y, accessed 3 October 2026, licensed under CC BY 4.0. The licence requires the publisher's attribution. We ask that you also name publicdata.au and link to the version you used. Plain text: Access Canberra, ACT Government, Registration data from the ACT Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, https://www.data.act.gov.au/d/2n27-ed2y, accessed 3 October 2026, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/act-bdm-registrations/v/2026-10-01/ Harvard: Access Canberra, City and Environment Directorate (2026) Birth, death and marriage registrations by month, ACT, version 2026-10-01 [data set], CC BY 4.0, sourced 3 October 2026. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au. Available at: https://publicdata.au/d/act-bdm-registrations/v/2026-10-01/ Markdown: Data: [Birth, death and marriage registrations by month, ACT](https://www.data.act.gov.au/d/2n27-ed2y), Access Canberra, City and Environment Directorate, [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), sourced 3 October 2026. Files: [publicdata.au](https://publicdata.au/d/act-bdm-registrations/v/2026-10-01/) by [National Digital](https://nationaldigital.com.au/). ## Questions ### How do I download Birth, death and marriage registrations by month as a CSV file? Open https://publicdata.au/d/act-bdm-registrations/latest/data.csv. It redirects to the newest dated version, which is https://publicdata.au/d/act-bdm-registrations/v/2026-10-01/data.csv today. The same path serves Excel, JSON, Parquet, SQLite, DuckDB, NDJSON, Arrow. A dated URL never changes, so use it when the file must stay the same. ### Can I open Birth, death and marriage registrations by month in Excel? Yes. https://publicdata.au/d/act-bdm-registrations/v/2026-10-01/data.xlsx is a workbook with the 597 rows on a records sheet, the field list on a second sheet and the provenance on a third. The CSV also opens in Excel. https://publicdata.au/d/act-bdm-registrations/v/2026-10-01/data.csv.gz is the CSV at about a tenth of the size. ### What years does Birth, death and marriage registrations by month cover? The current version covers 2017 to 2025. Each release from Access Canberra becomes a new dated version here, and earlier versions stay online. ### How often is Birth, death and marriage registrations by month updated? Access Canberra releases it monthly. This site checks the portal every week and adds a dated version when the file changes. ### Can I use Birth, death and marriage registrations by month commercially? Yes. CC BY 4.0 allows commercial use, redistribution and derived works as long as the attribution is kept. The attribution string is in this page's side column and inside every file. ### Is this the official source for Birth, death and marriage registrations by month? No. The publisher is Access Canberra, City and Environment Directorate, and its page is https://www.data.act.gov.au/d/2n27-ed2y. This site republishes the publisher's file without changing its content. The original sits beside every version as source.csv with its SHA-256, so the two can be compared. ### How do I get only the rows for one registration type? Every version has one JSON file per value of registration_type, 6 files in the current version, listed with row counts at https://publicdata.au/d/act-bdm-registrations/v/2026-10-01/by/registration_type/index.json. For example https://publicdata.au/d/act-bdm-registrations/v/2026-10-01/by/registration_type/birth-registration.json holds the 111 rows where registration_type is Birth Registration. ### What is in each row? One type of registration in one month, with the number of registrations the ACT Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages processed in that month. The types are births, deaths, marriages, civil partnerships, changes of name and changes of sex. ### Why are some months or types missing? The publisher leaves out any registration type with a count of 5 or less in a month, so a missing row means a small count, never zero. ### Is this the number of births in the ACT? It counts registrations by the month they were processed. A birth can be registered weeks or months after it happens, so the counts follow the registry's workload rather than the date of each event. ## What this site did to the data Cells were typed, headers were renamed to snake_case and the encoding was made UTF-8. Rows were left alone. Nothing is derived. The publisher's file is beside every version as `source.csv`. ## Improve this dataset This page is built from [register/act-bdm-registrations.yaml](https://github.com/National-Digital/publicdata.au/blob/main/register/act-bdm-registrations.yaml) on GitHub, and a fix to it is welcome as a pull request. https://publicdata.au/contribute/ explains how.