Birth statistics
The comparison of registered births with estimated live births at national level shows a sharp increase in rate of birth registration completeness, from 84.2% in 2021 to 92.9% in 2022.
The share of births registered within 30 days of occurrence underwent an upward shift, from 93.7% in 2021 to 95.9% in 2022. Hypothetically, these positive changes may be due to the decentralization of registration services at health facilities and cells, strengthened awareness on birth registration and changes in registration processes, familiarity of civil registration staff with the use of NCI-CRVS and enhanced monitoring of registration practices at all registration points.
Death statistics
Vital statistics on deaths show a total of 25,577 deaths registered in 2022 of which 47.2% occurred in the community. The comparison of registered deaths with expected deaths gives 31.1% completeness rate of death registration in 2022, up from 26.2% in 2021. Mortality statistics show a high number of deaths among males compared to females with a sex ratio at death equivalent to 122.2 males’ deaths per 100 females’ deaths, up from 119.8 in 2021.
Causes of deaths
Analysis of causes of death data depicts a slight decrease in the percentage of deaths causes that are usable for policies and proper decision-making representing 54.5% of the total number of deaths causes reported by health facilities in 2022, slightly down from 56.6% in 2021. Across age groups, analysis shows that among institutional deaths, the group of non communicable diseases is generally more frequent to females aged 15 and above. Among males, they are more frequent to adult males aged 45 and above and young males aged 10-14.
Marriage statistics
Marriage statistics were computed based on legal marriages registered in 2022 where CRVS system generated data show a total of 35,529 marriages registered in 2022, slightly up from 33,809 legal marriages registered in 2021; giving annual crude marriage rate equivalent to 2.7‰ in 2022.