Births, Deaths and Marriages

Statistics on vital events (including births, deaths and marriages).

The Vital Statistics Team provide statistics on vital events registered by the General Register Office (GRO) for Northern Ireland; these include birth, marriage, divorce and death registrations. These statistics are important in providing information to support the delivery of public services and are used by the European Union and United Nations for international comparisons.

Finalised Annual Statistics on all these registrations and more are available from the Registrar General Annual Report.

Further provisional statistics for more recent years are available from the Registrar General Quarterly Tables.

If you would like to receive notification of new publications being released by the team please send an email containing your contact details to dmb.nisra@finance-ni.gov.uk

Related statistics

Adoptions and Re-Registrations

More detailed finalised information about these statistics can be found in the Adoptions and Re-registrations Section of the Registrar General Annual Report.

Births

This section contains Births statistics from 1887 onwards and Baby Names statistics from 1997 onwards for Northern Ireland.

Cause of Death

NISRA are involved in the production of a number of other reports relating to specific causes of death. Links to these are provided below.

Civil Partnerships

The Civil Partnership Act came into force in December 2005, enabling same-sex couples to obtain legal recognition of their relationship.

Deaths

This section contains Death and Infant death statistics from 1887 onwards for Northern Ireland, as well as Stillbirth statistics from 1974 onwards. Life Expectancy figures are also available here.

Divorces

More detailed finalised statistics on divorce registrations in Northern Ireland in 2015 are available from the Divorces Section of the Registrar General Annual Report.

Marriages

Provisional marriage statistics for more recent years are available from the Registrar General Quarterly Reports.

Registrar General Annual Report

The Annual Report of the Registrar General provides detailed demographic statistics for Northern Ireland.

Registrar General Quarterly Report

The Registrar General Quarterly tables provide provisional statistics on births, deaths, stillbirths, marriages and civil partnerships for each 3-month period in Northern Ireland. Finalised data for each year can be found in the Registrar General Annual Report

Neighbourhood Statistics

Contacts for Births, Deaths and Marriages