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.

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

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User Requested Data

This section contains data produced in response to ad hoc requests.

Vital Statistics Documentation

This page contains links to the Vital Statistics publication schedule, policy, guidance and data quality related documents that users may find useful.

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 summary births statistics from 1887 onwards, provisional monthly totals for births registered and births occurring, 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. Information on Alcohol deaths, Drug Related Deaths, Suicide, Winter Mortality (WM), Healthcare-Associated Infections (HCAI) and Covid-19 Related Deaths are available here.

Civil Partnerships

Summary statistics for Civil Partnerships and Civil Partnership Dissolutions are available in this section as well as links to other relevant outputs.

Deaths

This section contains Death and Infant Death statistics from 1887 onwards for Northern Ireland, as well as Stillbirth statistics from 1974 onwards.

Divorces

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.