The Registrar General for Scotland has published provisional figures for births, deaths, marriages and civil partnerships registered during the first quarter of 2012.
The figures show 14,218 deaths were registered in Scotland between January and the end of March 2012 – the lowest number of deaths recorded during the first quarter of the year for at least 100 years.
The provisional figures also show:
- 14,772 births were registered in the first quarter of the year – 159 (1.1%) more than in the same period of 2011.
- The number of marriages increased by 4% to 3,255, 124 more than during the first quarter of 2011.
- Civil partnerships had fallen to 83 (36 male and 47 female), 15 fewer than during the first quarter of 2011.
