Over a third of all births in Ireland were outside of marriage – the highest number recorded in Limerick.
New figures from the CSO show almost 69 thousand live births were recorded in 2013 to mothers with an average age of 32.
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35 thousand of these were boys and 34 thousand were girls.
That's a four per cent decrease on the 2012 figure but is 12 per cent higher than a decade previously.
The CSO says the number of twins born has increased dramatically over the past 20 years from 11.8 per cent in 1993 to a high of 18.7 per cent in 2013.
