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, stillbirth, marriage 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.

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Our workplan for 2020/21 is available on our Vital Statistics documentation page.

Related statistics

User Requested Data

Vital events statistics are published in a number of releases each year. If however you require extra analysis that isn't already published, you can submit a request. Previous user requests are published here

Vital Statistics Documentation

Quality and Information Documentation for Vital Statistics Outputs

Adoptions and Re-Registrations

While Adoption registers are closed and therefore detailed information is not available, annual headline figures on adoptions and re-registrations of births are available in this section of the website.

Births

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

Summary births statistics are also available.

Cause of Death

NISRA are involved in the production of a number of other reports relating to specific causes of death. Information on Alcohol deaths, Drug Related Deaths, Suicide, Excess Winter Mortality (EWM), Healthcare-Associated Infections (HCAI) and Covid-19 Related Deaths are available here.

Civil Partnerships

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

Summary statistics for Civil Partnerships and Civil Partnership Dissolutions are also available.

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

Decree absolute data is provided to NISRA by the Northern Ireland Courts and Tribunals Service (NICTS). Tables on the number of divorces granted each year in Northern Ireland are produced on an annual basis and are available in this section.

Marriages

This section contains data on the number of Marriages celebrated from 1887 onwards.

Please visit our summary marriages statistics page for headline marriages figures.

Registrar General Annual Report

The Annual Report of the Registrar General provides finalised 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.

Table 4a of the routine release ‘Registrar General Quarterly Report, Q3 (Jul-Sept 2020)’ is being released on Wednesday 18th November at 9:30 in advance of the full suite of tables associated with the routine Registrar General Quarterly Report Q3. The early release of Q3 cause of death statistics is to better meet user need.

Neighbourhood Statistics

Contacts for Births, Deaths and Marriages