The FreeBMD Database was updated on Thursday, 14 September 2023, to contain  289,023,749 unique index records, increased from 288,680,995 at the previous update on 23 July.

Years with additions of more than 10,000 records are: for births 1992-4, for marriages 1991-3, for deaths 1987, 1990, 1883, and 1995.