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 "id": "births-ni",
 "title": "Births registered, Northern Ireland",
 "category": "population",
 "summary": "Live births registered in Northern Ireland each calendar year since 1887, to mothers living in Northern Ireland, from NISRA.",
 "unit": "count",
 "chart": "line",
 "volatile": false,
 "status": "Official statistics",
 "notes": [
  "Births are counted by the year they were registered, not the year they happened, and only to mothers who lived in Northern Ireland when the birth was registered; a few each year are births from earlier years registered late. The totals include births registered under the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act.",
  "These are registrations to Northern Ireland's residents, so they are not on one chart with England and Wales's live births, which the ONS counts another way."
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  "publisher": "Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency",
  "publisher_url": "https://www.nisra.gov.uk/",
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  "licence": "OGL-3.0",
  "licence_name": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-11-09T14:48:40Z",
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  "experimental": false,
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