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THE NUMBER OF births recorded in Ireland in 2022 is lower again than in previous years, down over a fifth in a decade.
New figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) show that while births are fewer, the rate of deaths has risen.
There were 35,477 deaths registered in 2022, of which 18,346 were male and 17,131 were female.
This equates to a death rate of 7.0 deaths per 1,000 population. The 2022 figure is 19% higher than in 2012 when 28,848 deaths were registered.
The place with the highest number of births registered was Dublin City with 6,967 (12% of total live births in the country), followed by Cork County with 8.5%. Leitrim had the lowest number with 391 (0.7%) registered births in 2022.
There were 19 babies born to girls aged under 16 in 2022 while 384 women aged 45 and over gave birth.
The average age of first-time mothers is down 0.1 years to 31.5 years from 2021.
More than two-fifths of babies (43%) or 24,754, were born outside of marriage/civil partnerships.
Of the 23,173 marriages registered last year, 618 were same-sex marriages.
Some 83% of the deaths registered in 2022 were persons aged 65 years or over, according to the CSO.
Cancers, diseases of the circulatory system or diseases of the respiratory system, accounted for two in three deaths in 2022.
COVID-19 accounted for 1,848 deaths, or 5.2% registered deaths in 2022.
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Great idea from an Post.
I was in SuperValu shopping this week. I saw a lot of people who were definitely over 70.
Some seem to have no choice but to go out, collect pensions, go shopping for food, fuel etc.
It’s next to impossible to get an online delivery slot for shopping to be delivered.
You can’t ask people to stay in and offer minimal support, the Guards are helping some people, and this is a good initiative. But more needs to be done if the elderly are to be housebound.
@Mark Walsh: what p#sses me off is a neighbour of mine in good health and in her mid 30′s is still getting Tesco delivered when she is probably taking a slot from somebody that really needs it, I’m sure she is one of many around the country.
@Sharp Elsi Mate: how do you know your neighbour isn’t in an at risk group? It’s not just the elderly. Neighbour may have medical condition you don’t know about
@karen: she has been doing it for the last 2 years at least so unless her and her husband could see this coming or are that unfortunate I’d be very surprised. Not to mind the tesco is over 20 miles away and there is a fine big Supervalu on their doorstep. All i am saying is people need to be a bit more sensible.
@Sharp Elsi Mate: is your neigh our high risk?
Brillaint idea, as a concconer I hope these ideas are used after the emerengcy. Let’s build a better society where we all are involved in everybody’s care…
@David Dineen: absolutely. Cocooning too.
@David Dineen: that’d be lovely David, but Cant see it happening.
People are selfish, as long as it doesn’t effect them, they don’t really care.
Apart from the odd nice person
And living in a flat most of us don’t even know each other
Which makes me sad ,
we just hardly ever see each other
What about the post persons families?the more interaction they have the more likely it is they will get c19.they do have homes to go to as well.
@Stan Kowalskis: read the last line of the article. In practice they knock on the door and stand back a few metres until the person answers. If they don’t answer then they alert authorities
newspapers are yesterday’s news full of bacteria and virus they should be left on the shelf.
@Richard Russell: True Also all the food delivered could have germs.
Everything could. Even if the items are picked off shelves by a person using gloves, that means nothing, gloves still pass the virus from item to item!
But what else Can We do. There aren’t many solutions
It seems everything has a risk
@Richard Russell: everything is full of bacteria.
News papers only available in cities and counties just outside Dublin. For those living in the countryside and rural areas, as per usual no service available.
I just wanted to put it out there
my partner is my carer, he had to wait in a Que over 2 and half hours outside Tesco
He was in Bits by time he got back.
Then all I wanted to do was wipe everything with anti bacterial wipes.
Its a very frightening time especially for the more vulnerable amongst us
I really Feel for them.
If I didn’t have him, even without him being my carer, I couldn’t Que that long, I have terribly painful bad back and over active bladder!
@Fox&hounddog: Bacteria are different from viruses so anti-bacterial wipes don’t affect Covid-19.
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