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Universal Birth and Death Registration by 2030
July 1 , 2025
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- Governments across Asia-Pacific, including India, adopted a landmark resolution in Bangkok.
- The goal is to ensure all births are registered and all deaths recorded by 2030.
- The decision was made at the Third Ministerial Conference on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) in Bangkok, Thailand.
- CRVS refers to the official recording of life events like births, deaths, marriages, and divorces, under a legal system.
- The lead organisation behind CRVS is UN ESCAP (United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific).
- The resolution supports SDG Target 16.9 that is Legal identity for all, including birth registration.
- Since 2012, the number of unregistered children under five has dropped from 135 million to 51 million.
- 29 countries now register over 90% of births and 30 countries do the same for deaths.
- Despite this progress, 14 million children still don’t have their births registered by age one.
- Around 6.9 million deaths go unrecorded each year, mostly outside hospitals or in remote areas.
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