Registration of births, deaths, stillbirths, marriage and civil partnerships: Annual Statement for 2021

Annual Statement  

Office of the Superintendent Registrar  

R.21/2022

Births, Deaths, Stillbirths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships registered in the twelve parishes of the Island of Jersey

for the year 2021

Claire Follain, Superintendent Registrar February 2022

Contents

1. Births .................................................................................................................. 2

1. Actual births ....................................................................................................................... 2
2. Registered births .............................................................................................................. 3
3. Baby names ........................................................................................................................ 3

2. Deaths ................................................................................................................ 4

1. Registered deaths ............................................................................................................ 2
2. Actual deaths ..................................................................................................................... 3
3. Explanation of Cause of Death in Registration of Death ................................... 3
4. COVID-19 related deaths .............................................................................................. 2
5. Burials and Cremations .................................................................................................. 3

3. Stillbirths ........................................................................................................... 7

4. Marriage ............................................................................................................ 8

1. Marriage in Jersey ............................................................................................................ 8
2. Conversion to marriage ................................................................................................. 8
3. Marriage of Jersey residents in other jurisdictions .............................................. 9
4. Marriage of non-Jersey residents in Jersey ............................................................ 9

5. Civil Partnership ............................................................................................... 9

6. Table of registrations – 1995 to 2021 .......................................................... 10

The Minister for Home Affairs presents the following statistics for the year 2021:

1. Births

1. Actual births

The number of actual births in Jersey in 2021 was 890 – comprising 426 females and 464 males.

This represents the number of babies born in Jersey between 1st January 2021 and 31st December 2021.

There were therefore 27 more births in Jersey in 2021 than in 2020. 96.6% of births in Jersey occurred in St. Helier , i.e. 860.

849 births occurred at the General Hospital (i.e. 95.4% of all births). The remaining 41 births (4.6% of all births) occurred at a location other than the General Hospital.

Table showing the number of actual births in Jersey in 2021 by month and gender

Table showing the number of actual births in Jersey in 2021 by parish

2. Registered births

The number of registered births (including re-registrations of birth) in Jersey in 2021 was 897.

This represents the number of births which were registered between 1st January 2021 and 31st December 2021.

There were therefore 52 more registrations of birth than in 2020.

3. Baby names

The following table shows the 10 most popular baby names for girls and boys registered in Jersey between 2016 and 2021 (most popular first):

2. Deaths

1. Registered Deaths

There were 827 deaths registered in Jersey in 2021.

There were 109 more deaths registered in 2021 than in 2020. This is the highest number of deaths registered since 2018. 60% of deaths were registered in St. Helier i.e. 497 deaths.

Table showing the number of registered deaths in Jersey in 2021 by parish

2. Actual deaths

There were 814 deaths which occurred in Jersey between 1st January 2021 and 31st December 2021.

The highest number of deaths which occurred on the island in 2021 occurred in the months of January and September.

Table showing the number of actual deaths which occurred in Jersey in 2021

3. Explanation of Cause of Death in Registration of Death

A doctor qualified in law to certify a death, is required by law to certify the condition or conditions which caused a person's death. This certification is carried out immediately following a death and then forwarded to the Superintendent Registrar. In other cases, the Viscount provides confirmation to the Superintendent Registrar of the medical conditions which caused the death following further investigation and/or inquest.

Once established, these conditions are then registered as Cause of Death' on a death registration by the Superintendent Registrar.

Cause of Death' within a death registration sets out four separate, but related, sections for the recording of these conditions as follows:

1a. The disease or condition that lead to the death

1b. Due to or as a consequence of []

1c. Due to or as a consequence of []

2. Other significant conditions contributing to the death

A Cause of Death must include a condition in 1a. and may include conditions(s) in any of the other sections (or be blank in some sections if not relevant).

Cause of Death' on a death registration therefore represents a comprehensive narrative of all the conditions that caused the death of the person.

Only those conditions which caused the death are certified as a cause of death and registered as a Cause of Death' on the death registration. I.e. not all conditions which a person suffers with at the time of death will or should be certified/registered – only those that caused the death.

Due to the legal process involved with the registration of death, death registrations will be carried out several days following the actual date of death once all information is received and verified.

4. COVID-19 related deaths

During the pandemic period, the Superintendent Registrar has been publicly reporting the number of registrations of deaths on a daily and weekly basis. This includes COVID- 19 related deaths.

Where COVID-19 is recorded in any section of the Cause of Death' on a death registration, and the person tested positive for COVID-19 within 28 days of their death, the Superintendent Registrar publicly reports the death as a COVID-19 related' death statistic. This is in line with international reporting of COVID-19 deaths.

Where a person was diagnosed with (or suspected to have had) COVID-19 at the time of their death but it did not cause their death, it is not certified as a cause of death and COVID-19 does not form part of the Cause of Death on the death registration. It therefore would not be reported by the Superintendent Registrar as a COVID-19 related death statistic.

COVID-19 related registered deaths in 2021

Of the 827 deaths registered in Jersey in 2021, 45 deaths were registered with COVID- 19 recorded on the death registration (i.e. 1 more than in 2020). These include deaths which occurred in 2020 and 2021.

COVID-19 related deaths where the date of death occurred in 2021

There were 35 deaths registered as COVID-19 related deaths, whose date of death occurred in 2021 i.e. where the person's actual date of death was between 1st January 2021 and 31st December 2021 and COVID-19 was recorded on the death registration either in 2021 or to date in 2022. That is 22 less than in 2020.

The first death which occurred in 2021 and was registered as a COVID-19 related death in Jersey in 2021 occurred on 1st January 2021. The last COVID-19 related death of 2021 in Jersey occurred on 29th December 2021.

Of the 35 deaths registered as COVID-19 related deaths in 2021 where the death occurred in 2021, 24 (69%) were of men and 11 (31%) were of women.

Of the 35 deaths registered in 2021 where the death occurred in 2021, 24 COVID-19 related deaths occurred in a Health & Community Services venue (i.e. 24 at the General Hospital, 0 at St Saviour's Hospital and 0 at Sandybrook Nursing Home). 8 COVID-19 related deaths occurred in Care Homes and 3 COVID-19 related deaths occurred in domestic residences.

The age range of those 35 deaths registered as a COVID-19 related death, whose date of death occurred in 2021 was: 40-90+ years of age. The average age was 79 years of age (82 years of age in 2020).

Table showing the number of registered COVID-related deaths which occurred in 2021 in Jersey by age demographic and gender

Table showing the number of registered COVID-related deaths and non COVID-19 related deaths which occurred in 2021 in Jersey

5. Burial and cremation

Table showing the percentage of deaths registered in Jersey which resulted in cremations and burials in Jersey

3. Stillbirths

There were 4 stillbirths in the Island in 2021 – 3 more than in 2020.

4. Marriage

1. Marriage in Jersey

Total number of marriages

There were a total of 437 marriages in Jersey in 2021. This is 253 more than 2020.

This number includes civil marriage, marriage in the Church of England, and all other religious denomination marriage.

Marriages authorised by the Superintendent Registrar (Civil and Non-Anglican marriage)

The Superintendent Registrar authorised 364 marriages in 2021 – i.e. civil and non- Anglican religious marriages. This is 218 more than in 2020.

Civil / religious marriage statistics

There were 334 civil (i.e. non-religious) marriage ceremonies in Jersey in 2021 – 199 more than in 2020 i.e. 76% of all weddings which took place in Jersey were civil (non- religious) weddings.

111 out of 334 civil marriage ceremonies in Jersey in 2021 took place in the Register Office.

There were 103 religious marriage ceremonies – 54 more than in 2020, i.e. 24% of all marriages in Jersey.

Of these ceremonies –

• 73 marriages were conducted in Church of England churches i.e. 17% of the total Island marriages and 35 more than in 2020
• 24 marriages were conducted in Catholic churches i.e. 5% of the total marriages and 17 more than in 2020
• The remaining 6 religious marriages occurred in other denomination churches i.e. 2 more than in 2020

The most popular months for marriage in Jersey were July and August.

2. Conversion to marriage

Following amendments to the Marriage and Civil Status (Jersey) Law 2001 (which came into force on 1st July 2018), couples in valid civil partnerships are able to convert their civil partnership to marriage.

5 conversion to marriage ceremonies were solemnised in Jersey in 2021, 2 more than in 2020.

The total number of marriages solemnised in Jersey in 2021, including conversion to marriage ceremonies, was therefore 442.

3. Marriage of Jersey residents in other jurisdictions

The number of Jersey resident couples who applied to the Superintendent Registrar to marry in jurisdictions outside the Island in 2021 was 11 – 8 more than in 2020.

4. Marriage of non-Jersey residents in Jersey

The number of non-Jersey resident couples who travelled to Jersey in 2021 for the purpose of marriage by authorisation of the Superintendent Registrar was 37.

This was 27 more than in 2020 and made up 10% of all civil and non-Anglican marriages that were authorised in 2021.

The largest proportion of non-residents who travelled to Jersey to marry came from England.

The most popular months for non-residents to marry in Jersey were July and August.

5. Civil Partnership

In 2021, there was 2 civil partnerships ceremony in Jersey – 1 less than in the previous year.

6. Table of registrations – 1990 to 2021

Notes:

1. The figures for births shown above are, in column A, the number of births registered in each year, which includes the re-registration of births under the Marriage and Civil Status (Jersey) Law 2001; and in column B, the number of children actually born in each year.
2. The table includes civil partnerships from April 2012 onwards, and conversions to marriage from 1st July 2018 onwards.