Ireland's Central Statistics Office (CSO) has released its Vital Statistics Yearly Summary 2024 report on Friday, May 23.
"The CSO’s 2024 Vital Statistics yearly summary provides a snapshot of the life events (births, deaths, and marriages) which were registered in the year 2024," Seán O’Connor, Statistician in the Life Events and Demography Division, said on Friday.
The CSO noted that the statistics are based on the year the event was registered, which could differ from when the event occurred.
"For instance, of the 54,062 births which were registered in 2024, 91.3% occurred in 2024, with the remaining occurring in 2023."
Crude birth rates in Ireland in 2024
There were 54,062 births registered in 2024, a decrease of just over 1% when compared with the 54,678 registrations in 2023, the CSO said in its yearly report.
This represented an annual birth rate of 10.0 per 1,000 of population compared with 10 years earlier when the annual birth rate was 14.5 per 1,000 population in 2014.
Fertility in Ireland in 2024
The total period fertility rate (TPFR) is derived from the age-specific fertility rates in the current year, the CSO said. It represents the projected number of children a woman would have if she experienced current age-specific fertility rates while progressing from age 15-49 years.
A value of 2.1 is generally considered to be the level at which the population would replace itself in the long run, ignoring migration.
In 2024, the TPFR for Ireland was 1.5 which is below replacement level. In 2014, the TPFR stood at 1.9.
Age of mothers in Ireland in 2024
The average age of a mother at maternity in Ireland was 33.3 years for 2024, up by 0.1 years from 2023, when it was 33.2 years.
In 2014, this figure was 32.3 years, and in 2004, it stood at 30.8 years.
The average age of first-time mothers (31.7 years) increased by 1.2 years in 2024 when compared with 10 years previous when it was 30.5 in 2014. Over a 20 year period, this has increased by 3.2 years when it was 28.5 years in 2004.
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