Louth had almost 380 births in the third quarter of 2023

There were 379 births in Louth in the 3rd Quarter of 2023 according to statistics released by The Central Statistics Office.

The average age of first time mothers in the county in the 3rd quarter was 31 compared with a national average of 32.1.

According to the Vital Statistics Third Quarter 2023 release, almost half, 185, of those babies were born to people outside of marriage or civil partnership (48.8%). 

The statistics released today also show the provisional number of deaths of residents in Louth. 

Between January and March, 232 people in Louth died. 

Of those, 112 were male and 120 female. 

The biggest cause of death was cancer (81),followed by circulatory disease (68), Diseases of the Respiratory system (20) and external causes (9).

54 deaths came under the category of ‘All Other Causes’ in the third quarter of 2023. 

Nationally key findings show that the number of births fell by 243 or 1.7% in Quarter 3 (Q3) 2023 to 13,848 registrations. There were 8,319 deaths registered in the same period, which was 148 fewer deaths (1.7%) when compared with the same period in 2022. Although the CSO note that care should be taken when interpreting these figures. 

There were 121 deaths due to COVID-19 in Q3 2023, accounting for 1.5% of deaths in the quarter of which 53 were male and 68 were female.

Cancer and circulatory disease were the biggest causes of death in Ireland in Q3 2023 accounting for 4,978 (or 59.8%) of deaths compared with 4,865 (or 57.5%) in Q3 2022.

The average age of all mothers in Q3 2023 was 33.1 years, down slightly from 33.2 years recorded in Q3 2022. The average age of all mothers 10 years ago was 32.1 years for the same quarter.