Births, Marriages and Deaths – Third Quarter 2010

9 December 2010

The Registrar General for Scotland today published provisional figures for births, deaths, marriages and civil partnerships registered during the third quarter of 2010.

The figures show:

14,910 births were registered in the third quarter of the year – 348 fewer than in the same period of 2009. Taking the first three quarters together, the number of births is nearly 1% lower than in the first nine months of 2009 and nearly 3% lower than in the first nine months of 2008.
marriages were up by 326 from 11,251 to 11,577.
171 civil partnerships (72 male and 99 female) were registered in the quarter, 21 fewer than the third quarter of 2009.
12,506 deaths were registered in Scotland in the third quarter of 2010 – 0.6% more than in the same period of 2009.
Deaths from stroke fell by 5.7%, while deaths from coronary heart disease stayed the same. Deaths from cancer rose by 2.9%.

Registrar General for Scotland, Duncan Macniven, said:

“Today’s figures show that the number of deaths in the first 9 months of 2010 have remained almost the same as in the period January to September 2009 – which had the lowest number of deaths and lowest death rate in the period January to September for at least three decades.”

The full publication Births, Marriages and Deaths - Third Quarter 2010 is available on this website.