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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 second quarter of 2015

ISBN

Web Only

Official Print Publication

Web Only

9 September 2015

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Second Quarter 2015

This release presents provisional figures for vital events which were registered in Scotland in the period from 1 April 2015 to 30 June 2015, 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 ten years;
  • the totals for each Local Authority and NHS Board area for the latest quarter; and
  • more detailed analyses of the numbers of deaths (e.g. cross-classified by sex, cause and NHS Board area) for the latest quarter.

Main Points

  • 13,897 deaths were registered in the second quarter of the year – 1,051 (8.2 per cent) more than in the same period of 2014. This was the highest number of second quarter deaths since 2006. 

  • 13,718 births were registered in Scotland between 1 April and 30 June 2015 – 303 (2.2 per cent) less than in the same period of 2014. This was the lowest number of births in quarter two since 2009. 

  • There were 8,187 marriages, 155 fewer than in the second quarter of 2014 (a fall of 1.9 per cent).  Of these, 427 were same-sex marriages. 

  • There were 8 civil partnerships (5 male and 3 female), 121 fewer than during the second quarter of 2014. 

  • Compared with the same period in 2014, the number of deaths from coronary heart disease rose by 4.6 per cent to 1,739, deaths from stroke increased by 6.9 per cent to 1,040, and there were 3,929 deaths from cancer (an increase of 1.7 per cent).

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Tables and Chart

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All Tables

Births, deaths and other vital events - second quarter 2015
(Excel)

Table Q1

Births, stillbirths, deaths, marriages and civil partnerships, numbers and rates, Scotland, quarterly, 2005 to 2015
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Table Q2

Estimated population, births, stillbirths, deaths, marriages and civil partnerships, numbers and rates, by administrative area, Scotland, second quarter, 2015
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Table Q3

Deaths, by sex, age and administrative area, Scotland, second quarter, 2015
(Excel   CSV   PDF)

Table Q4

Deaths, by cause, Scotland, second quarters 2012-2015
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Table Q5

Deaths by sex, age and cause, Scotland, second quarter, 2015
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Table Q6

Deaths by sex, cause and NHS Board area, Scotland, second quarter, 2015
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Chart 1

Births, Marriages and Deaths registered in successive periods of four quarters
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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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