For the first time in three years, a fall has been recorded in the total number of births on the island
According to the Annual Report of the Registry General for the year ended December 31, 2018 presented to the House of Assembly by Minister of Home Affairs Walter Roban, for the first time in three years there has been a decrease in the number of births in Bermuda. In 2018 there were 530 births, a decrease of 46 or 7.9% over the 576 births recorded in 2017. The live birth rate of the population also fell by 0.7 point per thousand from 9.0 in 2017 to 8.3 in 2018. 83.8% or 444 of the total live births had at least one Bermudian parent.
The report, which deals primarily with the vital statistics of the island’s residential population, is compiled using information received from the Records Office of the King Edward VII Hospital relating to births, local funeral directors and medical practitioners in relation to deaths, and from local marriage officers and Masters of Bermuda registered ships in relation to local and maritime marriages.
Resident population holds steady
There was a decrease of 2 or 0.003% in the estimated resident population at the end of 2018 at 63,919 as opposed to the 63,921 in resident population estimated in 2017. At the end of 2018 there were 2,435 more women than men in the population figures.
