Births, Deaths, Stillbirths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships registered in the twelve parishes of the Island of Jersey for the year 2024

STATES OF JERSEY

BIRTHS, DEATHS, STILLBIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND CIVIL PARTNERSHIPS REGISTERED IN THE TWELVE PARISHES OF THE ISLAND OF JERSEY FOR THE YEAR 2024

Presented to the States on 31st January 2025 by the Minister for Justice and Home Affairs

STATES GREFFE

2025  R.14

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 2024

Claire Follain, Superintendent Registrar February 2025

Contents

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

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

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

1. Actual deaths ......................................................................................................... 4
2. Registered 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 ............................................... 8
4. Marriage of non-Jersey residents in Jersey ........................................................... 8

5. Civil Partnership ................................................................................................... 8

6. Table of Registrations – 1995 to 2024 ................................................................... 9

The Minister for Justice and Home Affairs presents the following statistics for the year 2024:

1. Births

1. Actual births

The number of actual births in Jersey in 2024 was 716.

This represents the number of live births of babies born in Jersey between 1st January 2024 and 31st December 2024.

This was comprised of 330 females (46%) and 386 males (54%) – the sixth year in a row that more males were born than females.

There were 79 fewer births in Jersey in 2024 than in 2023 i.e. a 10% decrease. This is 28% fewer births compared to the number of births that occurred in 2014. This is the lowest number of births recorded since 1945.

98% of all births in Jersey occurred at the General Hospital, i.e. 702.

The remaining 2% of births in Jersey occurred at a location other than the General Hospital, i.e. 14.

Table showing the number of actual births in Jersey in 2024 by month and sex

Table showing the number of actual births in Jersey in 2024 by parish

2. Registered births

The number of registered births (including re-registrations of birth) in Jersey in 2024 was 727.

This represents the number of live births which were registered by the Superintendent Registrar between 1st January 2024 and 31st December 2024 i.e. the operational productivity of the service in relation to births.

There were therefore 73 fewer registrations of birth than in 2023, i.e. a decrease of 9%. The proportion of births registered to married parents was 53%.

3. Baby names

The following table shows the 10 most popular baby names for girls and boys registered in Jersey by the Superintendent Registrar between 2016 and 2024 (most popular first):

2. Deaths

1. Actual deaths

There were 863 deaths which occurred in Jersey between 1st January 2024 and 31st December 2024.

51% of those who died in 2024 were male and 49% were female.

The highest number of deaths which occurred in Jersey in 2024 occurred in the months of January and October

The lowest number of deaths which occurred in Jersey in 2024 occurred in the months of April and July.

Table showing the number of actual deaths which occurred in Jersey in 2024 by month and sex

Table showing the number of actual deaths which occurred in Jersey in 2024 by age range

2. Registered Deaths

There were 877 deaths registered in Jersey in 2024. This represents the operational productivity of the service in relation to deaths.

There were 42 more deaths registered in 2024 than in 2023, a 5% increase. This is the highest number of deaths registered in Jersey since 1995.

36% of registered deaths occurred in the General Hospital i.e. 314 deaths 46% of registered deaths occurred in a care facility i.e. 400 deaths

18% of registered deaths occurred in the community i.e. 163 deaths

Table showing the number of registered deaths in Jersey in 2024 by parish

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 by the Superintendent Registrar. In the case of deaths subject to an inquest, registration will only take place after an inquest has taken place.

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. Similarly, some deaths which occur outside Jersey result in the repatriation of bodies from other jurisdictions for burial or cremation in Jersey and these do not form part of the below statistics.

3. Stillbirths

There were 2 stillbirths in the Island in 2024 – the same number as occurred in 2023.

This represents the number of births of babies born at 24 weeks or more gestation who were born without signs of life.

The births of these babies are registered separately to live births under specific legal provisions.

4. Marriage

1. Marriage in Jersey

Total number of marriages

A total of 381 marriages took place in Jersey in 2024.

This is 7 more than 2023 i.e. 2% more marriages than in 2023.

This number includes every marriage solemnised in Jersey ie all civil marriage (including conversion to marriage from civil partnership), marriage in the Church of England, and all other religious denomination marriage.

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

The Superintendent Registrar authorises all civil and non-Anglican religious marriages in Jersey.

In total the Superintendent Registrar authorised 330 marriages in 2024. This is 31 more than in 2023, i.e. a 10% increase.

Civil marriage increased by 10% in 2024 i.e. 316 of the 330 marriages authorised by the Superintendent Registrar in 2024 were civil marriages.

Religious marriage decreased by 12.5% in 2024, i.e. 14 of 330 marriages authorised by the Superintendent Registrar in 2024 were religious denomination marriages.

Civil / religious marriage statistics

The following statistics include marriages authorised by the Dean of Jersey as the authority for marriage for the Church of England in Jersey.

The number of authorisations for marriage by the Superintendent Registrar and the Dean of Jersey are combined to give a total number of marriages which took place in Jersey in 2024.

In total 83% of all marriages which took place in Jersey were civil (non-religious) marriage ceremonies and 17% of all marriages which took place in Jersey were religious marriage ceremonies.

There was a 12% increase in the number of civil marriages in Jersey in 2024 and a 30% decrease in the number of religious marriage ceremonies compared to 2023.

There were 316 civil (i.e. non-religious) marriage ceremonies in Jersey in 2024 – 33 more than in 2023.

There was a 22% increase in the number of civil marriage ceremonies taking place at the Office of the Superintendent Registrar (the Register Office).

In total, 135 out of 316 civil marriage ceremonies in Jersey in 2024 took place in the Register Office – 24 more than in 2023.

In total, there were 64 religious marriage ceremonies – 27 less than in 2023. Of these ceremonies –

• 50 marriages were conducted in Church of England churches - 25 fewer than in 2023 (a 33% decrease)

• 10 marriages were conducted in Catholic churches – the same number as in 2023

• The remaining 4 religious marriages occurred in other denomination ceremonies – 2 fewer than in 2023

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

2. Conversion to marriage / Conversion to Civil Partnership

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.

1 conversion to marriage (from civil partnership) ceremonies was solemnised in Jersey in 2024, 2 fewer than in 2023.

0 conversion to civil partnership (from marriage) ceremonies were solemnised in Jersey following a change in the law in March 2023 to allow such conversions.

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 2024 was 11 i.e. 2 fewer than in 2023. The most popular destination for marriage by Jersey residents was Greece.

4. Marriage of non-Jersey residents in Jersey

The number of non-Jersey resident couples who travelled to Jersey in 2024 for the purpose of marriage by authorisation of the Superintendent Registrar was 67.

This was 12 more couples than in 2023 and made up 22% of all civil and non-Anglican marriages that were authorised by the Superintendent Registrar in 2024.

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

Following amendments to the Marriage and Civil Status (Jersey) Law 2001 (which came into force in March 2023), opposite sex couples are able to apply to form a civil partnership.

In 2024, there were 8 civil partnership ceremonies in Jersey – 3 more than in the previous year.

6. Table of registrations – 1990 to 2024

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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