Increase in Bermuda's birth rate

The Annual Report of the Registry General of Bermuda for the year ended December 31, 2016 was tabled by Minister of Home Affairs Walton Brown in the House of Assembly today. The report deals primarily with the vital statistics pertaining to the Island’s residential population. It was noted that in 2016 there were 591 births, 492 deaths and 450 marriages performed in Bermuda. For the second time in five years there has been a slight increase in the number of births, an increase of 1.4% over the 583 births recorded in 2015. 80% of the total live births had at least one Bermudian parent.

Bermuda had a death rate of 7.5 per thousand of the population for 2016 which reflected an increase of 2.9% from 478 recorded in 2015. There was an increase of 0.15% in the estimated resident population at the end of 2016 at 65,391 as opposed to the 65,292 in resident population estimated in 2015. At the end of 2016 there were 2,751 more females than males in the population figures.