by Elaine Edwards © 2009 irishtimes.com
The birthrate in the second quarter of last year was up by some 40 per cent on 1999, with 60 more babies born every day than in that year, new figures show.
Some 19,027 births were registered in quarter two of 2008, an annual birth rate of 17.2 per 1,000 population.
This is an increase of 5,442 births (40 per cent) on the same period in 1999. The increase in the last year alone was 11 per cent.
The figures are contained in the Central Statistics Office's Vital Statistics Second Quarter 2008 report.
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