School rolls September 2021 The years between 2010 and 2020 saw a remarkable 35.5% decline in the number of births in the Isle of Man (from 1,023 in 2010 to 660 in 2020). The latest school rolls data provided by the Department of Education, Sport and Culture (1 November) reflect this trend. The lar…
2021 Census The Isle of Man’s 2021 Census took place at the end of May and work is underway to collate responses from more than 35,000 households. Approximately 75% of the forms were completed online, so the processing time should be shorter than for the previous census in 2016. There are three key…
The fall in the number of births in the Isle of Man shows no signs of coming to an end. The graph below shows that the decline in the number of babies being born (the red line) has now extended to a tenth consecutive year. In 2020, just 660 births were notified to the General Registry (down from 71…
The latest Government population estimate, provided by the Economic Affairs Division, shows that the population of the Isle of Man reached over 84,500 at the end of September 2020. This might be good news. It suggests that, after 9 and a half years, the Island’s population may have finally climbed…
In April 2016, a few weeks prior to the 2016 Census count, an analysis of school rolls data provided one of the first indications that the Isle of Man’s population was in decline. A graph in the Isle of Man Population Atlas showed how school yeargroups had been shrinking as they passed up through t…
A written answer in the Tynwald Hansard on 15 September 2020 indicated that the production of the quarterly Comin reports was being suspended for a period of time, initially 12 months. The reason given was that the Economic Recovery Group (1) would be receiving a monthly ‘dashboard’ about the perfo…
The news that next year’s Isle of Man census could be delayed by a year because of the Covid-19 pandemic (Isle of Man Examiner 7 July 2020) is a cause for concern. It seems that this proposal has been made because of a shortage of resources in the Economic Affairs Division of the Cabinet Office and…
March 2020 government population estimates The latest economic report for the Isle of Man Council of Ministers, covering the first quarter of 2020, was published at the end of May. It does not yet show the usual population estimate (the explanation offered is simply that “This data was unavailable…
The 2019 figures for births and deaths in the Isle of Man showed a decline in the number of births for the ninth consecutive year. In 2010, the total number of babies born on the Island peaked at 1,023. Last year the number of births registered was just 710. Births have fallen by 30.6% in 9 years.…
