Registrar General Quarterly Tables 2024 Quarter 3

The Quarter 3 (July to September) 2024 Registrar General Quarterly Tables were published this morning at 9.30am.

25 February 2025: Quarter 3 2024 release - Following a change to ICD-10 coding processes in relation to how underlying cause is determined, there has been a revision to cause of death totals for quarters 1 and 2 2024, which have been reflected in the quarter 3 2024 release. The main categories impacted were alcohol-specific and drug-related deaths. An information note about this change in process, quantifying the impact is available on the same page as the tables for quarter 3 2024.

Key points 

• The statistics show a provisional total of 4,091 deaths registered in quarter three of 2024.
• At a high level there were 1,147 (28.0%) deaths due to cancer, 931 (22.8%) deaths due to circulatory disease, and 478 (11.7%) 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 three, 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 three of 2024 was estimated at 4,406. The relative number of excess deaths based on the expected deaths for quarter three of 2024 was estimated at -315.
• The age-specific death rates show the clear relationship between mortality and age Death rates range from 0.07 to 6.10 (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 100.37 for 85 to 89 year olds and to 214.51 for those aged 90 and over.
• A total of 2,905 marriages were registered in quarter three of 2024, and 13 civil partnerships.
• The number of births registered in quarter three of 2024 was 4,914. Although the latest quarter has shown an increase of 84 in the number of births from the previous quarter, the overall trend for over a decade is still a downward one.

Tables are available in Registrar General Quarterly Report.

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