Suicide rate decreased slightly in 2018, data shows

Almost 1,000 teenagers had a baby in 2018 and of these, 22 were aged under 16 years of age.

The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has published its yearly summary of vital statistics which also found that more than one-in-three babies (37.8%) were born outside of marriage/civil partnerships and, of these, 59.1% were to cohabitating parents.