Registrar General Quarterly Tables 2025 Quarter 1

Date published: 04 June 2025

Topics: Registrar General Quarterly Report

The Quarter 1 (January to March) 2025 Registrar General Quarterly Tables were published this morning at 9.30am.

Key points

The statistics show a provisional total of 4,840 deaths registered in quarter one of 2025.
At a high level there were 1,231 (25.4%) deaths due to cancer, 1,079 (22.3%) deaths due to circulatory disease, and 697 (14.4%) 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 one, 2025 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 one of 2025 was estimated at 4,965. The relative number of excess deaths based on the expected deaths for quarter one of 2025 was estimated at -125.
The age-specific death rates show the clear relationship between mortality and age Death rates range from 0.09 to 16.2(deaths per 1,000 population of the relative age group) for age groups up to 65 to 74, however, the rates for age groups above are much higher, with 127.47 for 85 to 89 year olds and to 250.31 for those aged 90 and over.
A total of 800 marriages were registered in quarter one of 2025, and 13 civil partnerships.
The number of births registered in quarter one of 2025 was 4,848. This is continuing the downward trend which has been observed for over a decade.

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