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Tuesday 6 December 2022
The change is being made due to concerns over an ageing workforce and economic stagnation.
The number represents a 5% decline and the HSE has welcomed the trend.
Ireland has the highest birth rate in the EU.
Islam has 1.8 billion followers, but a Muslim baby boom is expected.
At present our birth rate isn’t high enough to replace our population. However, we’re also dying less and getting married more.
The Fingal area of Dublin recorded the highest birth rate in the country with the lowest rate recorded in Mayo.
New figures from the ESRI also show there were 1,217 sets of twins born last year, and 33 sets of triplets.
Everyone’s talking about the death of Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney and the US moving closer to military intervention in Syria.
The figures from the Central Statistics Office also showed that 36.5 per cent of total births in January to March were to parents outside marriage.
The highest percentage of births outside marriage or civil partnership was in Limerick, while the lowest was in Galway.
An ESRI study shows a larger proportion of the Irish population having children than any other EU member state.
The average Irish woman will have 2.06 children in her childbearing years – more than anyone else in the European Union.
An ESRI analysis of the Census 2011 data suggests that more than one in ten men aged in their 20s have left Ireland.
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The latest ESRI data also shows an increase in the age of women giving birth as well as an increase in the amount of births by caesarean section.
Ireland is going to see a population boom of 46 per cent in the next 50 years according to the EU’s statistics office, and we’re all going to be living longer too.
Ireland has both the highest birth and lowest death rate in Europe – but it’s not all good news.
IT’S SET TO be a wintry week ahead with a weather advisory in place nationwide.
Met Éireann has issued a winter weather advisory for the whole country, which will remain in place until 11.30pm next Saturday, 10 December.
The forecaster has said it will be very cold this week as an Arctic airmass sets in, bringing sharp to severe frosts and icy stretches on roads.
Showers of hail, sleet and snow will occur during the second half of the week.
So today, we’re asking: Do you want it to snow?
Share your story: voices@thejournal.ie
Brief morning showers; variably cloudy
Max: 6 °C
Min: 0 °C
Partly sunny and chilly
Max: 4 °C
Min: -1 °C
Showers of rain and snow in the morning
Max: 3 °C
Min: -4 °C
