Social & Inequality
Birth registration
SP.REG.BRTH.ZS · %
Annual series published by the World Bank, compared across Italy, Spain, Netherlands, United States, China, South Sudan, Sierra Leone, Slovenia. The chart carries the trajectory, the table carries the year by year figures, and the definition at the foot of the page is the World Bank's own, quoted as it stands.
- Latest value, Italy
- 100%2022
- Period covered
- 2011 - 20224 annual values
- Highest of the compared countries
- 100%Italy, 2022
- Lowest of the compared countries
- 35.4%South Sudan, 2010
8 countries compared, that is the maximum. Remove one to add another.
Latest known valuesorted by value
Italy100%2022
Spain100%2022
Netherlands100%2022
United States100%2022
Slovenia100%2022
Sierra Leone90.4%2019
South Sudan35.4%2010
Year by year values
Click the Year header to reverse the order. An empty cell means the World Bank publishes nothing for that country that year.
| Italy | Spain | Netherlands | United States | South Sudan | Sierra Leone | Slovenia | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | ||
| 2019 | 90.4% | ||||||
| 2017 | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 81.1% | 100% | |
| 2014 | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | |||
| 2013 | 100% | 76.7% | |||||
| 2011 | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | |||
| 2010 | 35.4% | 78% | |||||
| 2009 | 100% | ||||||
| 2008 | 50.9% | ||||||
| 2005 | 48% |
World Bank definition
Completeness of birth registration (%)
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.
Text published by the World Bank for indicator SP.REG.BRTH.ZS, reproduced unchanged.
The same indicator across Europe & Central Asia
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