Completeness of birth registration, male

Completeness of birth registration is the percentage of children under age 5 whose births were registered at the time of the survey. The numerator of completeness of birth registration includes children whose birth certificate was seen by the interviewer or whose mother or caretaker says the birth has been registered.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
167
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Updated
2026-09-06

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    UNICEF

    Household surveys, UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), note: Household surveys such as Demographic and Health Surveys and Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys. Largely compiled by UNICEF.

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Fiji202186.83percent
India202188.80percent
Madagascar202173percent
Mauritania202145.30percent
Andorra2020100percent
Argentina202099.97percent
Czechia2020100percent
Estonia2020100percent
Finland2020100percent
Gambia202060.30percent

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