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Births, Deaths, Marriages in 2003
18/03/2004
The Registrar General today released two sets of
provisional figures for vital events (births, deaths and
marriages) registered during 2003.
The Preliminary Return provides provisional figures for
the year 2003. The Quarterly Return provides provisional
figures for Quarter 4 (October 1 to December 31, 2003).
Final figures for 2003 are planned to be published in
July this year in the Registrar General's Annual Review of
Demographic Trends.
Duncan Macniven, Registrar General for Scotland,
said
"The most interesting figure is the rise in the number
of births. Over 2% more babies were born in 2003 than in
2002. That's the first time since 1997 that the long slow
fall in the number of births has been reversed.
But it may be too early to draw conclusions, because
births in the last quarter of the year were lower than in
2002."