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Statistics on life event registrations in Northern Ireland including births; stillbirths; marriages; civil partnerships, deaths (including cause of death); adoptions; and gender recognition registrations.
Related statistics
Births
This section contains links to annual births statistics from 1887 onwards, provisional monthly totals for births registered and births occurring, and Baby Names statistics from 1997 onwards for Northern Ireland.
Deaths
This section contains links to annual Death and Infant Death statistics from 1887 onwards for Northern Ireland, as well as Stillbirth statistics from 1974 onwards.
Provisional monthly totals of deaths registered, excess deaths and weekly death statistics are also available.
Provisional monthly totals of Stillbirths registered 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, Winter Mortality (WM), and Covid-19 Related Deaths are available here.
Marriages
This section contains links to annual data on the number of Marriages celebrated from 1887 onwards.
Civil Partnerships
This section contains links to annual civil partnership statistics and annual civil partnership dissolution statistics as well as links to other relevant 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 the Annual Report of the Registrar General.
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.
Registrar General Quarterly Tables
Provisional quarterly births, deaths, stillbirths and marriages statistics for Northern Ireland.
Registrar General Annual Report
The Annual Report of the Registrar General provides finalised detailed demographic statistics for Northern Ireland.
ICD-11 Implementation
This page contains details on the transition of NI Death Statistics from ICD-10 to ICD-11 death coding. The Vital Statistics Team will be implementing this change and will be posting updates periodically on this page.
About Life Event Statistics
This page contains links to the Vital Statistics publication schedule, policy, guidance and data quality related documents that users may find useful.
User Engagement
This page contains details on User Group Events, consultations and surveys and links to newsletters on recent and upcoming publications relating to life event statistics such as births, deaths and marriages.