Annual Statement of the Office of the Superintendent Registrar 2022.

STATES OF JERSEY

ANNUAL STATEMENT OF THE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT REGISTRAR 2022

Presented to the States on 10th February 2023 by the Minister for Home Affairs

STATES GREFFE

2023  R.25

Annual Statement  

Office of the Superintendent Registrar  

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

for the year 2022

Claire Follain, Superintendent Registrar February 2023

Contents

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

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

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

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

3. Stillbirths ........................................................................................................... 6

4. Marriage ............................................................................................................ 6

1. Marriage in Jersey ............................................................................................................ 6
2. Conversion to marriage ................................................................................................. 7
3. Marriage of Jersey residents in other jurisdictions .............................................. 7
4. Marriage of non-Jersey residents in Jersey ............................................................ 7

5. Civil Partnership ............................................................................................... 7

6. Table of registrations – 1995 to 2022 ............................................................ 8

The Minister for Home Affairs presents the following statistics for the year 2022:

1. Births

1. Actual births

The number of actual births in Jersey in 2022 was 835 – comprising 371 females and 464 males.

This represents the number of babies born in Jersey between 1st January 2022 and 31st December 2022.

There were therefore 55 less births in Jersey in 2022 than in 2021. This is the lowest number of births recorded since the 1970s.

95% of births in Jersey occurred in St. Helier , i.e. 795.

787 births occurred at the General Hospital (i.e. 94% of all births). The remaining 48 births (6% of all births) occurred at a location other than the General Hospital.

Table showing the number of actual births in Jersey in 2022 by month and gender

Table showing the number of actual births in Jersey in 2022 by parish

2. Registered births

The number of registered births (including re-registrations) in Jersey in 2022 was 857.

This represents the number of births which were registered between 1st January 2022 and 31st December 2022.

There were therefore 40 less registrations of birth than in 2021. The number of births registered to married parents was 51%.

3. Baby names

The following table shows the 10 most popular baby names for girls and boys registered in Jersey between 2016 and 2022 (most popular first):

2. Deaths

1. Registered Deaths

There were 874 deaths registered in Jersey in 2022.

There were 47 more deaths registered in 2022 than in 2021. This is the highest number of deaths registered since 1995. 63% of deaths were registered in St. Helier i.e. 549 deaths.

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

2. Actual deaths

There were 913 deaths which occurred in Jersey between 1st January 2022 and 31st December 2022.

The highest number of deaths which occurred in Jersey in 2022 occurred in the months of September and December.

The lowest number of deaths which occurred in Jersey in 2022 occurred in the months of June and July.

There were 61 deaths which occurred in Jersey in 2022 where Covid-19 was a cause of death.

Table showing the number of actual deaths which occurred in Jersey in 2022

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. Burial and cremation

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

Note: some deaths which occur in Jersey result in the repatriation of bodies to other jurisdictions for burial or cremation and do not form part of these statistics.

3. Stillbirths

There were 3 stillbirths in the Island in 2022 – 1 less than in 2021.

4. Marriage

1. Marriage in Jersey

Total number of marriages

There were a total of 439 marriages in Jersey in 2022. This is 2 more than 2021.

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 360 marriages in 2022 – i.e. civil and non- Anglican religious marriages. This is 4 less than in 2021.

Civil / religious marriage statistics

There were 340 civil (i.e. non-religious) marriage ceremonies in Jersey in 2022 – 6 more than in 2021 i.e. 77% of all weddings which took place in Jersey were civil (non-religious) weddings.

106 out of 340 civil marriage ceremonies in Jersey in 2022 took place in the Register Office.

There were 99 religious marriage ceremonies – 4 less than in 2021, i.e. 23% of all marriages in Jersey.

Of these ceremonies –

• 79 marriages were conducted in Church of England churches - 6 more than in 2021

• 17 marriages were conducted in Catholic churches - 7 less than in 2021

• The remaining 3 religious marriages occurred in other denomination churches - 3 less more than in 2021

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.

0 conversion to marriage ceremonies were solemnised in Jersey in 2022, 5 less than in 2021.

The total number of marriages solemnised in Jersey in 2022, including conversion to marriage ceremonies, was therefore 439.

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 2022 was 18 i.e. 7 more than in 2021. The most popular destination for marriage was Italy.

4. Marriage of non-Jersey residents in Jersey

The number of non-Jersey resident couples who travelled to Jersey in 2022 for the purpose of marriage by authorisation of the Superintendent Registrar was 53.

This was 16 more than in 2021 and made up 15% of all civil and non-Anglican marriages that were authorised by the Superintendent Registrar in 2022.

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 June and August.

5. Civil Partnership

In 2022, there was 1 civil partnership ceremony in Jersey – 1 less than in the previous year.

6. Table of registrations – 1990 to 2022

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.
3. The figures for deaths shown above represent the number of registered deaths in Jersey.
4. The figures for marriage shown above represent the total number of marriages solemnised in Jersey.

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