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Births, Deaths and Other Vital Events - Quarterly Figures

Births, Deaths and Other Vital Events - Quarterly Figures

Description

Provisional figures for vital events registered in Scotland in the fourth quarter of 2016

ISBN

Web Only

Official Print Publication

Web Only

8 March 2017

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Fourth Quarter 2016

This release presents provisional figures for vital events which were registered in Scotland in the period from 1 October 2016 to 31 December 2016, inclusive. The tables and chart (available below) provide statistics of births, stillbirths, marriages, civil partnerships and deaths, including:

  • quarterly figures for Scotland for each of the past eleven years;
  • the totals for each Local Authority and NHS Board area for the latest quarter; and 
  • more detailed analyses of the numbers of deaths (for example cross-classified by sex, cause and NHS Board area) for the latest quarter. 

Main Points

  • 12,993 births were registered in Scotland between 1 October and 31 December 2016 – 459 (3.4 per cent) fewer than in the same period of 2015.
  • 14,572 deaths were registered in the fourth quarter of the year – 507 (3.6 per cent) more than in the same period of 2015.
  • Compared with the same period in 2015, the number of deaths from cancer fell by 1.0 per cent to 3,991, deaths from coronary heart disease fell by 3.6 per cent to 1,692 and there were 1,073 deaths from cerebrovascular disease (an increase of 5.6 per cent). Deaths from respiratory system disease rose by 10.8 per cent to 1,935.  Deaths from dementia rose by 8.7 per cent to 1,003 and deaths from Alzheimer’s Disease rose by 26.4 per cent to 580. 
  • There were 6,366 marriages, 184 more than the figure for the fourth quarter of 2015 (a rise of 3.0 per cent). Of the total, 208 were same-sex marriages.
  • There were 17 civil partnerships (8 male and 9 female), three more than during the fourth quarter of 2015. 

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Tables and Chart

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All Tables

Births, deaths and other vital events - fourth quarter 2016
(Excel)

Table Q1

Births, stillbirths, deaths, marriages and civil partnerships, numbers and rates, Scotland, quarterly, 2006 to 2016
(Excel    CSV    PDF)

Table Q2

Estimated population, births, stillbirths, deaths, marriages and civil partnerships, numbers and rates, by administrative area, Scotland, fourth quarter, 2016
(Excel    CSV    PDF)

Table Q3

Deaths, by sex, age and administrative area, Scotland, fourth quarter, 2016
(Excel    CSV    PDF)

Table Q4

Deaths, by cause, Scotland, fourth quarter, 2013-2016
(Excel    CSV    PDF)

Table Q5

Deaths by sex, age and cause, Scotland, fourth quarter, 2016
(Excel    CSV    PDF)

Table Q6

Deaths by sex,cause and NHS Board area, Scotland fourth quarter, 2016
(Excel    CSV    PDF)

Chart 1

Births, Marriages and Deaths registered in successive periods of four quarters
(Excel    CSV    PDF)

Commentary

More detailed commentary on the final Vital Events statistics for calendar years as a whole (including some comparisons of the figures for different years, for parts of Scotland and for some other countries) can be found in the following areas of our website:

Note

This is a quarterly publication. The dates of future publications will be announced in our Future Publications page.

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