This web page contains information on an IADB-financed project in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as links to publications, CRVS information by country, articles, and publications.

This web page provides the current status and progress of birth registration globally.

This article examines wealth, urban/rural, and gender inequalities in birth certificate coverage in 94 countries.

This web page contains inputs from 35 countries to a OHCHR report on birth registration.

This article argues the importance of legal identity for good governance.

This web page calls attention to the negative impacts of discrimination against women and girls in the context of racism and racial discrimination.

This article examines actionable determinants of birth registration of children in Bauchi and Cross River states of Nigeria.

This article analyzes data from the 2011 Vietnamese Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS), linking birth registration with childhood care and education.

This practical tool documents the special needs of child brides, and outlines the nature of the economic and social factors that reinforce the practice.

This web page provides slide presentations on health information systems.

This article describes the testing of health and demographic surveillance systems (HDSS) in a community in Kenya.

This article provides compelling justification for the importance of accurate reporting of causes of death.

This article assesses the results of the effort to improve health information in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

This article discusses the evaluation of 234 variants of death distribution methods in three different validation environments, and demonstrates the application of optimal variants.

This statistical note describes several sets of age-adjustment weights based on the year 2000 projected U.S. population.

This web page provide access to the WHO mortality database.

This web page provides the results of the UNSD's global monitoring of civil registration and vital statistics.

The article discusses obstacles to greater use of administrative records, as well as concern regarding information protection and record linkage.

This article discusses improvements in measuring vital statistics. It also points to the urgent need to meet challenges for accurate vital statistics.

This article discusses the need to improve vital statistics in low-income and lower-income countries. It also provides recommendations for improving civil registration with the aim of enhancing vital

This web page has a downloadable tool for users to follow a step-by-step approach to quickly conduct a comprehensive analysis of data on mortality levels and causes of death.

This article gives a brief overview of data editing methodology. The article is behind a paywall for non-members.

This web page gives access to information on the technical strategy for improving mortality statistics in Africa.

This article proposes a simple method for evaluating death registration completeness during intercensal periods. Applications are made to data from South Korea and Argentina.

This article presents the modelling of daily neonatal mortality risk. It estimated the proportion of deaths on the day of birth and in week 1 for 186 countries in 2013.