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Birth registration

Children attend class in a UNICEF-supported learning centre in Camp 9 of the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.

19 November 2021

Leaders commit to building a more resilient future through inclusive civil registration and vital statistics in Asia and the Pacific

A mother received a birth certificate of her newborn baby, in the Malalai Hospital, in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan

16 November 2021

A Statistical Profile of Birth Registration

In Asia and the Pacific

(PDF, 14,04 MB)

Teretia and Kateia,two sisters who live in the small Ribono islet of the Kiribati Islands

Making the ‘Invisible’ Visible

Teretia and Kateia are two sisters who live in the small Ribono islet of the Kiribati Islands. Their village, with a little less than one hundred inhabitant

UNICEF/UN074031/Pirozzi

11 December 2019

Despite significant increase in birth registration, a quarter of the world’s children remain ‘invisible’ – UNICEF

Proportion of registered births increased almost 20 per cent over past decade, yet 166 million children under-five have never been officially recorded

Timor

07 September 2018

The Government of Japan and UNICEF join hands to enhance birth registration system in Timor-Leste

unequal

02 February 2015

Unequal at Birth

The report looks at disparities in birth registration in East Asia and the Pacific

(PDF, 1,23 MB)