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United Nations expert group meeting on strengthening the demographic evidence base for the post-2015 development agenda, 5-6 October 2015, New York Demographic Evidence from Civil Registration Systems

Adriana Skenderi United Nations Statistics Division

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Purpose of presentation

• Provide a review of the availability of basic statistics on births

and deaths compiled from the records of civil registrations systems, and their quality

• A global review and by region
• Africa, Asia, America North, America South, Europe, Oceania, World
• 1995 – 2014 reference period
• Using the UN Demographic Yearbook database; data and information

as of mid-September 2015

• Provide additional insight on challenges and areas needing

work and improvement

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Vital statistics; UN Demographic Yearbook

• UNSD collects annually statistics on vital events and their

qualifiers of quality via the Demographic Yearbook Vital Statistics questionnaire, completed by the National Statistical Offices (NSOs).

• The template of the questionnaire is available online at:

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/dybquest.htm

• The questionnaire is comprised of many tabulations covering

a wide range of vital events according to the Principles and Recommendations for a Vital Statistics System

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/standmeth/principles/default.htm

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Vital statistics; UN Demographic Yearbook

• The aim is to collect vital statistics at the national level, compiled as
• utputs of civil registration systems.
• For simplicity, in this presentation we denote by “CRVS births” and

“CRVS deaths” statistics on respectively births and deaths, compiled from the records of civil registration systems of countries or areas, and reported thereafter by NSOs to UNSD.

• The collected data are reviewed, processed and stored in the

Demographic Yearbook database.

Information on the other vital events or additional ways of disaggregating the availability of information can be provided upon request.

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Vital statistics on births and deaths

• As part of the vital statistics data collection, NSOs are requested to provide

annually the total numbers of live births and deaths that have occurred during the calendar year (and by sex and urban or rural residence), as well as datasets for births by age of mother and sex of newborn and deaths by age and sex.

• NSOs are requested to provide as well, an estimate of the completeness (at

the national level and also for all ages combined in the case of deaths) of births and deaths numbers reported.

• The completeness of births and deaths data, depends respectively on the

coverage and completeness of births and deaths registration.

• For the purpose of Demographic Yearbook, an estimate of more than or equal

to 90 per cent refers to “complete” data, otherwise “incomplete”.

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Births and deaths statistics – global

71 75 73 67 2 3 5 3 26 22 22 31 20 40 60 80 100 1995-1999 2000-2004 2005-2009 2010-2014 Figure 1: Availability of total births reported to Demographic Yearbook, percentage of countries/areas

CRVS births Other No data

57 58 3 6 41 36 20 40 60 80 100 1995-2004 2005-2014 Figure 2: Availability of births by age of mother reported to Demographic Yearbook, percentage of countries/areas

CRVS births Other No data

69 74 74 66 3 4 5 3 27 23 21 32 20 40 60 80 100 1995-1999 2000-2004 2005-2009 2010-2014 Figure 3: Availability of total deaths reported to Demographic Yearbook, percentage of countries/areas

CRVS deaths Other No data

60 58 5 6 35 35 20 40 60 80 100 1995-2004 2005-2014 Figure 4: Availability of deaths by age reported to Demographic Yearbook, percentage of countries/areas

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Births and deaths statistics – global

• Information is presented since 1995 by five-year reference periods for total births and

deaths

• and by two ten-year reference periods for births by age of mother (and sex of new

born) and deaths by age and sex; these reference periods coincide with the 2000 and 2010 rounds of population censuses

• The “Other” portion of the bars include countries or areas that have reported the

number of births or household deaths, compiled from census declarations for the 12 month period (or any other appropriate period) before a census, and only five countries with sample vital registration systems or a large demographic survey.

• Some of the reporting countries that have used census as a source for either births or

deaths are: Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, DPR Korea, Ghana, Jamaica, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Republic of South Sudan, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, State of Palestine, Swaziland, Tokelau, Tonga, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

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Births and deaths statistics – global

some conclusions

• Availability of total births or deaths compiled as outputs of CR systems has shown
• nly slight improvements during 2000-2009 compared to 1995-1999; dropping

again for 2010-2014.

• For the reference period 2005-2014, the percentage of countries that could report

CRVS births (complete or incomplete) is at most 73 per cent. The analogous figure for deaths is 74 per cent.

• The availability of CRVS data is lower for the more detailed datasets. For the past

two decades, the availability of CRVS births by age of mother has remained at 57- 58 per cent, and of deaths by age and sex at 58-60 per cent. These numbers refer to complete or incomplete data.

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Births and deaths statistics – Africa

11 11 10 8 6 9 11 9 42 39 38 42 10 20 30 40 50 60 1995-1999 2000-2004 2005-2009 2010-2014

Figure 5: Africa, availability of total CRVS births, number of countries/areas

Complete Incomplete No data 19 19 17 14 10 15 19 15 71 66 64 71 20 40 60 80 100 1995-1999 2000-2004 2005-2009 2010-2014

Figure 5a: Africa, availability of total CRVS births, percentage of countries/areas

Complete Incomplete No data 6 7 7 6 7 10 15 11 46 42 37 42 10 20 30 40 50 60 1995-1999 2000-2004 2005-2009 2010-2014

Figure 6: Africa, availability of total CRVS deaths, number of countries/areas

Complete Incomplete No data 10 12 12 10 12 17 25 19 78 71 63 71 20 40 60 80 100 1995-1999 2000-2004 2005-2009 2010-2014

Figure 6a: Africa, availability of total CRVS deaths, percentage of countries/areas

Complete Incomplete No data

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Births and deaths statistics – Africa

• The availability of total CRVS births has shown small improvements during

the second and subsequently the third time period (from 29 to 34 then to 36 per cent), however it falls back to 29 per cent for reference years 2010- 2014.

• The number of countries that could produce complete total CRVS births

has decreased (11 during 1995-2004, 10 during 2005-2009 and 8 during 2010-2014).

• CRVS births by age of mother are available for 9 countries during 1995-

2004 (7 complete and 2 incomplete) and for 12 countries during 2005- 2014 (6 complete, 6 incomplete).

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Births and deaths statistics – Africa

• The availability of total CRVS deaths has also shown small improvements

during the decade 2000-2009, rising up to 37 per cent.

• However the number of countries/areas that could produce complete

total CRVS deaths remains at 6 – 7 countries since 1995.

• CRVS deaths by age are available for 11 countries during 1995-2004 (5

complete and 6 incomplete) and for 13 countries during 2005-2014 (5 complete and 8 incomplete). A notable number of countries have relied on censuses of population and surveys to produce fertility and mortality indicators.

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Births and deaths statistics – America, North

29 29 27 24 5 6 6 5 7 6 8 12 10 20 30 40 50 1995-1999 2000-2004 2005-2009 2010-2014

Figure 7: North America, availability of total CRVS births, number of countries/areas

Complete Incomplete No data 71 71 66 59 12 15 15 12 17 15 20 29 20 40 60 80 100 1995-1999 2000-2004 2005-2009 2010-2014

Figure 7a: North America, availability of total CRVS births, percentage of countries/areas

Complete Incomplete No data 29 29 28 23 5 7 6 5 7 5 7 13 10 20 30 40 50 1995-1999 2000-2004 2005-2009 2010-2014

Figure 8: North America, availability of total CRVS deaths, number of countries/areas

Complete Incomplete No data 71 71 68 56 12 17 15 12 17 12 17 32 20 40 60 80 100 1995-1999 2000-2004 2005-2009 2010-2014

Figure 8a: North America, availability of total CRVS deaths, percentage of countries/areas

Complete Incomplete No data

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Births and deaths statistics – America, North

• The availability of total CRVS births and deaths is above 80 per cent during

1995-2009, however it starts declining during 2005-2009 and subsequently drops to 71 per cent for CRVS births and to 68 per cent for CRVS deaths during 2010-2014.

• Several Caribbean countries or areas have not reported vital statistics

during the recent years.

• Among the reporting countries, the number reporting complete CRVS

births and deaths is much higher than the number reporting incomplete

• nes.

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Births and deaths statistics – America, North

• Most of the countries that have reported total numbers of CRVS births and

deaths, have reported as well datasets on births by age of mother and deaths by age.

• Datasets on CRVS births by age of mother are available for 29 countries

during 1995-2004 (24 complete, 5 incomplete) and for 28 countries during 2005-2014 (23 complete, 5 incomplete).

• Datasets on CRVS deaths by age are available for 34 countries during

1995-2004 (28 complete, 6 incomplete) and for 27 countries during 2005- 2014 (24 complete, 3 incomplete).

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Births and deaths statistics – America, South

7 7 7 6 5 6 6 6 2 1 1 2 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 1995-1999 2000-2004 2005-2009 2010-2014

Figure 9: South America, availability of total CRVS births, number of countries/areas

Complete Incomplete No data 50 50 50 43 36 43 43 43 14 7 7 14 20 40 60 80 100 1995-1999 2000-2004 2005-2009 2010-2014

Figure 9a: South America, availability of total CRVS births, percentage of countries/areas

Complete Incomplete No data 8 8 8 7 5 6 6 5 1 2 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 1995-1999 2000-2004 2005-2009 2010-2014

Figure 10: South America, availability of total CRVS deaths, number of countries/areas

Complete Incomplete No data 57 57 57 50 36 43 43 36 7 14 20 40 60 80 100 1995-1999 2000-2004 2005-2009 2010-2014

Figure 10a: South America, availability of total CRVS deaths, percentage of countries/areas

Complete Incomplete No data

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Births and deaths statistics – America, South

• The availability of CRVS total births and deaths reporting is 86 per cent or

more, with only 1 – 2 non-reporting countries/areas during certain periods.

• The issue however is the completeness of data with 5-6 countries/areas

(out of 14) reporting births or deaths classified as incomplete.

• One of the issues in some countries is the incomplete combined with

delayed registration. Work is being done in some countries to capture the delayed registration of births and allocate such births to the year of

• ccurrence, by recording during registration and tabulating for vital

statistics the year of birth or the age of individuals registered, in addition to the date of registration, and other characteristics such as sex, residence

• f the mother, etc.

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Births and deaths statistics – America, South

• The incompleteness issue is reflected also in reporting CRVS births by age
• f mother and sex of newborn and CRVS deaths by age and sex.
• Out of 14 countries/areas in South America, 10 have reported CRVS births

by age of mother during 1995-2004 (6 complete, 4 incomplete) and 11 during 2005-2014 (6 complete, 5 incomplete).

• CRVS deaths by age have been reported by 12 countries during 1995-2004

(7 complete, 5 incomplete) and by 11 countries during 2005-2014 (6 complete, 5 incomplete).

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Births and deaths statistics – Asia

27 26 27 27 10 12 10 10 13 12 13 13 10 20 30 40 50 1995-1999 2000-2004 2005-2009 2010-2014

Figure 11: Asia, availability of total CRVS births, number of countries/areas

Complete Incomplete No data 54 52 54 54 20 24 20 20 26 24 26 26 20 40 60 80 100 1995-1999 2000-2004 2005-2009 2010-2014

Figure 11a: Asia, availability of total CRVS births, percentage of countries/areas

Complete Incomplete No data 25 24 26 25 11 13 11 11 14 13 13 14 10 20 30 40 50 1995-1999 2000-2004 2005-2009 2010-2014

Figure 12: Asia, availability of total CRVS deaths, number of countries/areas

Complete Incomplete No data 50 48 52 50 22 26 22 22 28 26 26 28 20 40 60 80 100 1995-1999 2000-2004 2005-2009 2010-2014

Figure 12a: Asia, availability of total CRVS deaths, percentage of countries/areas

Complete Incomplete No data

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Births and deaths statistics – Asia

• The level of total CRVS births and deaths availability has remained almost

the same for the past 20 years, at 74-76 per cent of the number of countries for births and 72-74 per cent for deaths.

• The percentage of countries reporting complete total births is 52-54 per

cent, whereas incomplete ones 20-24 per cent.

• The percentage of countries reporting complete total deaths is 48-52 per

cent, whereas incomplete ones 22-26 per cent.

• Among the reporting countries, the share between the ones reporting

complete and incomplete data has not visibly changed during the past 20 years. India and Bangladesh that provide data from sample registration systems and China based on national survey on population changes are not included in the CRVS numbers.

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Births and deaths statistics – Asia

• The numbers of countries that have reported CRVS births by age of

mother (and sex of newborn) and deaths by age (and sex) are respectively lower than the ones reporting total births (and by sex of newborn) and total deaths (and by sex).

• Out of 50 countries in Asia, CRVS births by age of mother are available for

29 countries during 1995-2004 (23 complete, 6 incomplete) and 28 countries for 2005-2014 (23 complete, 5 incomplete).

• CRVS deaths by age are available for 26 countries during 1995-2004 (22

complete, 4 incomplete) and 29 countries for 2005-2014 (23 complete, 6 incomplete).

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Births and deaths statistics – Europe

49 50 49 49 1 1 1 10 20 30 40 50 1995-1999 2000-2004 2005-2009 2010-2014

Figure 13: Europe, total CRVS births, number of countries/areas

Complete Incomplete No data 98 100 98 98 2 2 2 20 40 60 80 100 1995-1999 2000-2004 2005-2009 2010-2014

Figure 13a: Europe, total CRVS births, percentage of countries/areas

Complete Incomplete No data 49 50 49 49 1 1 1 10 20 30 40 50 1995-1999 2000-2004 2005-2009 2010-2014

Figure 14: Europe, total CRVS deaths, number of countries/areas

Complete Incomplete No data 98 100 98 98 2 2 2 20 40 60 80 100 1995-1999 2000-2004 2005-2009 2010-2014

Figure 14a: Europe, total CRVS deaths, percentage of countries/areas

Complete Incomplete No data

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Births and deaths statistics – Europe

• In Europe, the reporting of total CRVS births and deaths, is complete for all

countries or areas.

• However a few countries/areas have not reported the CRVS datasets of

births by age of mother and sex of child and deaths by age and sex.

• Out of 50 countries/areas, 44 have reported births by age of mother

during 1995-2004 and 46 during 2005-2014.

• 45 countries have reported datasets of deaths by age and sex during 1995-

2004 and 44 countries during 2005-2014.

• All the above statistics are complete (i.e. refer to 90 per cent or more of

the events occurred in the reference year).

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Births and deaths statistics – Oceania

15 14 15 13 6 8 6 2 3 2 3 9 5 10 15 20 25 1995-1999 2000-2004 2005-2009 2010-2014

Figure 15: Oceania,total CRVS births, number of countries/areas

Complete Incomplete No data 63 58 63 54 25 33 25 8 13 8 13 38 20 40 60 80 100 1995-1999 2000-2004 2005-2009 2010-2014

Figure 15a: Oceania, total CRVS births, percentage of countries/areas

Complete

Incomplete

No data

14 14 15 12 6 7 5 2 4 3 4 10 5 10 15 20 25 1995-1999 2000-2004 2005-2009 2010-2014

Figure 16: Oceania, total CRVS deaths, number of countries/area

Complete Incomplete No data 58 58 63 50 25 29 21 8 17 13 17 42 20 40 60 80 100 1995-1999 2000-2004 2005-2009 2010-2014

Figure 16a: Oceania, total CRVS deaths, percentage of countries/areas

Complete Incomplete No data

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Births and deaths statistics – Oceania

• The availability of CRVS births and deaths in Oceania has decreased during

the past 10 reference years, with a sharp decrease during the last five years.

• Many island nations or areas have not been able to report vital statistics

recently.

• For the reference years 2010 – 2014, 15 countries/areas out of 24 have

reported total CRVS births (13 complete and 2 incomplete).

• For the reference years 2010 – 2014, 14 countries/areas have reported

total CRVS deaths (12 complete and 2 incomplete).

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Births and deaths statistics – Oceania

• CRVS births by age of mother are available for 14 countries/areas or 58

per cent during 1995-2004 (9 complete, 5 incomplete) and for 12 countries/areas or 50 per cent during 2005-2014 (10 complete, 2 incomplete).

• Datasets on CRVS deaths by age are available for 15 countries/areas or 63

per cent during 1995-2004 (11 complete, 4 incomplete) and the same numbers also for 2005-2014.

• Oceania has seen the sharpest decrease in the availability of basic births

and deaths datasets as a percentage of countries/areas.

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Summary

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 1995-1999 2000-2004 2005-2009 2010-2014

Figure 17: Availability of total CRVS births, by period and region, percentages World Africa America, North America, South Asia Europe Oceania

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 1995-1999 2000-2004 2005-2009 2010-2014

Figure 18: Availability of total CRVS deaths by period and region, percentages

World Africa America, North America, South Asia Europe Oceania

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Summary

14 59 43 54 98 54 53 15 12 43 20 8 13 20 40 60 80 100 Africa America, North America, South Asia Europe Oceania World

Figure 19: Availability of total CRVS births, by completeness status and region, 2010-2014, percentage of countries/areas

Incomplete Complete

10 56 50 50 98 50 51 19 12 36 22 8 14 20 40 60 80 100 Africa America, North America, South Asia Europe Oceania World

Figure 20: Availability of total CRVS deaths by completeness status and region, 2010-2014, percentage of countries/areas

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Summary

• The availability of basic statistics on births and deaths compiled from

records of civil registration systems overall has not improved during the past two decades,

• by region, and consequently globally.
• Differences among regions that existed in the past still persist.
• For some regions there is a decrease in availability.
• The more details are required of the basic statistics on births and deaths,

the less is the number of countries able to provide such datasets at the national level.

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Thank you

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