27/10/2015

Number Of Births In NI Increases By 11%

The number of babies born in Northern Ireland has increased by 11 percent since 2001, according to the Royal College of Midwives (RCM).

Statistics analysed by RCM indicate stability in recent years with the total number of recorded births varying between 24,000 and 25,500 each year since 2007.


Northern Ireland has also seen fewer births to women and girls under the age of 20 and this is reflective of a similar story right across the UK.

Last year 839 babies where born to women aged 20 and younger and that is almost half of what it was in 1999 (1,791). The age profile of mothers has increased by 22 per cent since 2001, while the share of all births to women in their forties has also doubled since that period.

(CD/LM)

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