Irish Birth Rate Rose to Near 30-Year High in 2009, CSO Says
8th Apr 10
A total of 19,289 babies were born in Ireland in the third quarter of 2009, the highest number registered in the State in almost 30 years.
New figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) show that the number of babies born rose by 1.8 per cent over 2008 and was close to that for the second quarter of 1980, when 19,339 births were registered in Ireland. In 2009, 42.6 per cent of all births were to first-time mothers.
The average age of mothers giving birth was 31.2 years. Births in the third quarter of 2009 represented an annual birthrate of 17.3 per 1,000 people, compared to 17.2 per 1,000 in the same quarter in 2008 and just 14.7 per 1,000 in the same three-month period in 2000.
Fingal in Dublin recorded the highest birthrate, 23 per 1,000, for...
Challenges for Ireland (and Europe) “Massive” As Elderly Takeover: The Irish...
28th Jan 10
An editorial in The Irish Times says “more than one-fifth of the world’s population (22 per cent) will be over 60 years of age by 2050, double the current proportion, with the elderly overtaking the world’s population of children five years earlier”.
The newspaper was referring to a new report from the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, World Population Ageing 2009, that...
Former Irish MEP Highlights Dangers of Europe’s “Demographic Winter”
25th Jan 10
Kathy Sinnott, former Irish MEP, told ciNews that the EU is moving very quickly towards legalising euthanasia. She noted that in 2007 Fianna Fáil’s ALDE (liberal) political group hosted a conference on the issue in the European Parliament. It’s quite unusual to hold such a meeting at the...