Completeness of birth registration, rural

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
120
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
India202187.50percent
Indonesia202172.70percent
Madagascar202171percent
Mauritania202129.70percent
Gambia202063.30percent
Guyana202088.20percent
Liberia202062.80percent
Palestine, State of202099.10percent
Peru202096.10percent
Rwanda202085.80percent

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