Registrar General Quarterly Tables 2024 Quarter 1

The Quarter 1 (January to March) 2024 Registrar General Quarterly Tables were published this morning at 9.30am.

Several new tables are available in the release for quarter 1 2024 including:

• Age specific death rates
• Leading causes of death
• Excess deaths by age and sex, and excess deaths by month
• Certificate language requested for vital event registrations.

Key points 

• The statistics show a provisional total of 5,059 deaths registered in quarter one of 2024.
• At an overall level there were 1,180 (23.3%) deaths due to cancer, 1,174 (23.2%) deaths due to circulatory disease, and 700 (13.8%) 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 1 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.
• A total of 828 marriages were registered in quarter one of 2024, and 11 civil partnerships.
• The number of births registered in quarter one of 2024 was 5,074, which is continuing the slight downward trend observed before the pandemic.

Tables are available in Registrar General Quarterly Report.

If you would like to receive alerts about Vital Statistics releases, please email demography@nisra.gov.uk

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