THE DEPARTMENT OF Health has released its comprehensive yearly look at Ireland’s health.

The Health in Ireland Key Trends report takes a look into the demographics, population health and expenditure on health services.

Here’s what it shows:

People in Leitrim, Longford and Louth are having the highest number of babies per head of population, Dublin is having the lowest.

Ireland’s percentage of over-65 population is highest in Connacht and Kerry

Ireland’s men and women are living longer than the EU average

We generally think we’re pretty healthy

Way more than the EU, anyway

30,000 people died in 2013, with diseases of the circulatory system accounting for 9,654 of those and cancer killing 8,814. 

Longford and Carlow have particular problems with respiratory diseases

Cancer and deaths from other causes in Ireland have dropped dramatically in the last 20 years

We’re bellow the EU average for road deaths, but above average for deaths by suicide

We’re also below the EU average in infant mortality

Irish people don’t survive some cancers as long as the EU average

Consumption of alcohol and tobacco has fallen in the last 20 years

Transplant numbers are up, with far more kidney transplants than anything else

Fewer people are are being admitted to psychiatric hospitals, but more young people are being admitted

Mayo, Donegal and Louth have the highest proportion of medical cards

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