Crude birth rate Northern Ireland 1971-2021

In 2021, there were 11.6 births per 1,000 people in Northern Ireland, compared with eleven in the previous year. Between 2000 and 2008 Northern Ireland's birth rate increased from 12.8 to 14.4 but started to decline gradually until 2012 when it dropped from 13.9 to 13.3 in just one year.

UK Birth rate drops to 11.4

For the United Kingdom as a whole, the birth rate fell to 10.7 in 2019, the lowest it has been since 2002. Like Northern Ireland the birth rate for the entire UK rose throughout the 2000s and reached a peak in 2010 at 12.9 births per 1,000 population, the birth rate declined after this year, with the rate falling from 12.8 to 12.1 between 2012 and 2013.

755 thousand births in 2017

The live birth rate is based on the number of live births in the UK along with the population estimates for that year. In 2019 there were around 712 thousand births, out of a population of approximately 67 million people.