Registrar General Quarterly Tables 2024 Quarter 4

Date published: 10 April 2025

The Quarter 4 (October to December) 2024 Registrar General Quarterly Tables were published this morning at 9.30am.

Key Points

• The statistics show a provisional total of 4,535 deaths registered in quarter four of 2024.
• At a high level there were 1,184 (26.1%) deaths due to cancer, 1,025 (22.6%) deaths due to circulatory disease, and 578 (12.7%) deaths due to respiratory diseases (excluding Covid-19 deaths).
• Looking in more detail the leading cause of death for all persons in Northern Ireland in quarter four, 2024 was dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. This was also true for females but for males the leading cause of death was ischaemic heart disease.
• The expected deaths for quarter four of 2024 was estimated at 4,832. The relative number of excess deaths based on the expected deaths for quarter four of 2024 was estimated at -297.
• The age-specific death rates show the clear relationship between mortality and age Death rates range from 0.08 to 7.62 (deaths per 1,000 population of the relative age group) for age groups up to 55 to 64, however, the rates for age groups above are much higher, with 109.26 for 85 to 89 year olds and to 221.17 for those aged 90 and over.
• A total of 1,491 marriages were registered in quarter four of 2024, and 16 civil partnerships.
• The number of births registered in quarter three of 2024 was 4,605. This is continuing the downward trend which has been observed for over a decade.

Tables are available in Registrar General Quarterly Report.

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