No of Births in Ireland: Second Quarter of 2011

[Brenny]

It seems we're slowing down slightly in terms of baby popping, but we're still near historic highs for this country.

No. of babies born in 2nd Quarter of 2011 was around 2% down from the same quarter in 2010 but still 20% higher than in 2002.

The average age of first time mothers is just under 30.

Amongst the more interesting stats:


Around 1/3 were born to unmarried mothers but over half of these babies were born to unmarried parents living at the same address (I bet welfare will be interested in this anyway.)

Limerick City had the highest number of births to unmarried mothers at around 47%. As a Limerick man I'm going to try put a positive spin on this and state that this statistic shows we are very socially liberal here.

Five girls aged 15 and under gave birth, one of them to her second (well done you! How prodigious.)

Big families are on the decrease but still some 217 births, out of a total of 18,318, were to mothers who already had 5 kids or more.

77.2% of births were to mothers born in Ireland. Number of births to accession state mothers is holding steady at 10.6%. The comparable figures for all of 2009 were 76.2% to Irish born mothers and 10.3% to accession state mothers.
This was the discussion on the 2009 figures
In 2009, 24% of all births in the State were to women born outside Ireland

Overall there was some 11,000 more births than deaths in this period so we're still enjoying a natural increase.

Here is the Irish times article
Births fall by 2.5% in second quarter - The Irish Times - Wed, Feb 22, 2012

And here are the actual CSO figures
http://www.cso.ie/en/media/csoie/rel...ats_q22011.pdf

[Gimpanzee]

I was just feeding my inner geek with these stats when I realised I have one of those babies at home.

[Brenny]

I was just feeding my inner geek with these stats when I realised I have one of those babies at home.

Well done! If it wasn't for you it'd have only been 18,317 for that quarter.

[culmore]

cut back the allowances for the single parents and see the rate fall , jurex will make a huge profit and may employ a few more people, so win win

[Brenny]

cut back the allowances for the single parents and see the rate fall , jurex will make a huge profit and may employ a few more people, so win win

I don't know what you put on yours but I put DUREX on mine. I just googled Jurex and I got something about Legal Nurse Consulting.

[chimina]

cut back the allowances for the single parents and see the rate fall , jurex will make a huge profit and may employ a few more people, so win win

Jurex? Is that a lidl own brand?

[Brenny]

Jurex? Is that a lidl own brand?

Ah, I see. How are they going to do the add on this one?

[Telemachus]

There hasnt been replacement rate fertility in Ireland since about 1990.

The Irish people are making themselves extinct.

Do not believe the spin about the "baby boom" there is none.

The bastard rate is holding steady at 33%.

[Asparagus]

Ah, I see. How are they going to do the add on this one?

"Jurex" - its Just as ************************************g good

[neiphin]

There hasnt been replacement rate fertility in Ireland since about 1990.

The Irish people are making themselves extinct.

Do not believe the spin about the "baby boom" there is none.

there is and they are mainly black refugees