Variable: Completeness of birth registration (%)

QoG Code: (wdi_birthreg)


Dataset: World Development Indicators

Description:

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.

Type of variable: Continuous

Downloaded by QoG on: 2024-11-20
Last updated by source: 2024-10-28


Categories:

Civil Society/Population/Culture


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Standard Cross-section - 2025 Standard Time-series - 2025 Original Dataset

Details of this variable in our compilations datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Standard cross-section: 106
Standard time-series: 175


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This variable has information from the year 2000 to the year 2022