Number of births in Ireland fell 10% between 2021 and 2022 — latest figures

The CSO report also states that, in 2022, the average age of mothers giving birth was 33.2 years. Picture: iStock

The number of births in Ireland fell by 10% in 2022 compared to the previous year, according to new figures.

That is just one of a raft of findings on births and deaths included in the Vital Statistics Annual Report 2022, published on Thursday by the Central Statistics Office (CSO).