Civil registration & vital statistics

Register Every Life Event

Births, marriages and deaths registered continuously and turned into vital statistics ministries plan with.

1 in 4

children under 5 have no birth certificate

~40%

of deaths worldwide are never registered

2030

SDG 16.9 deadline for legal identity for all

Civil registration

Every life event, captured and connected

Civil registration is the legal foundation of identity. Recorded accurately and on time, each event gives a citizen a recognised legal identity — and gives government the vital statistics that planning depends on.

Birth registration

Feeds: fertility rates · birth cohorts · school planning

Marriage registration

Capture marriage and civil union records with verified identity of both parties, maintaining an authoritative civil register.

Feeds: household composition · age at marriage

Death registration

Record deaths accurately and promptly, closing identity records and keeping the population register current and trustworthy.

Feeds: mortality rates · cause of death · life expectancy

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End-to-end CRVS

Registering every life event, anywhere

Fixed facilities, mobile outreach and a connection to national identity, working as one continuous system.

Registration at every facility

Hospitals, clinics and registry offices are where most life events occur. Desktop and kiosk configurations deliver consistent capture built for daily throughput.

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Reaching remote communities

Many births and deaths occur far from any registry office. Mobile devices are self-contained — full-day battery, offline capture, sensors built for heat and dust.

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Linked to national identity

Each life event connects to the national identity database. Deduplication and biometric matching keep the population register accurate over time.

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Vital statistics

From a registered event to a national statistic

Vital statistics are a by-product of good registration, not a separate survey. Every validated record flows through the same pipeline — so demographic insight arrives in weeks, not after the next census.

STEP 01

Register the event

Facility, registry office or mobile registrar captures biographic detail and biometrics — online or off.

STEP 02

Validate & deduplicate

Biometric matching against the national register removes duplicates and ties the event to a single identity.

STEP 03

Code & aggregate

Cause of death is coded to ICD-11; events are aggregated by district, age and sex against population denominators.

STEP 04

Publish statistics

Statistics offices, health ministries and planners draw on the same authoritative series via secure exchange.

Statistics you can act on

Completeness, timeliness and cause-of-death quality are visible while the programme runs — so outreach goes where registration is lagging, not where it is already strong.

Completeness by district — registrations against expected events, refreshed daily.

Timeliness — share of births registered within the legal window.

Cause-of-death quality — ill-defined codes flagged for review at source.

Secure exchange — statistical extracts released without personal identifiers.

Vital statistics · national overview

Illustrative data

BIRTHS YTD

412,860

▲ 6.2% vs. LY

DEATHS YTD

96,140

78% with coded cause

COMPLETENESS

91.4%

▲ 12.1 pts since launch

TIMELY ≤30 DAYS

73%

of birth registrations

Registered events by month

Births

Deaths

Registration completeness by region

Central

97%

Coastal

93%

Northern

84%

Highlands

68%

Leading causes of death (ICD-11)

21%

Cardiovascular

17%

Infectious

14%

Neoplasms

Perinatal

22%

Ill-defined — under review

What the statistics are used for

Evidence based national planning

The same registration data that gives a child a birth certificate tells a ministry how many classrooms that district will need in six years.

Urban Planning

Helps cities prepare for rapid migration and expansion, directing zoning, public transit planning, and housing initiatives.

Budgeting

Budgets are allocated dynamically to districts experiencing documented population surges.

Maternal and Child Health

Maternal and under-five mortality rate figures are a direct report card on the performance of the national healthcare system.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is CRVS?

Civil Registration and Vital Statistics is the continuous recording of life events such as births, marriages and deaths. It establishes legal identity for individuals and produces the vital statistics governments rely on for planning and service delivery.

Which indicators can a government publish?

Crude birth and death rates, fertility and mortality by age and sex, infant, under-five and maternal mortality, life expectancy, cause-of-death distributions, and registration completeness and timeliness by administrative area.

Can Laxton reach births and deaths that occur outside registry offices?

Yes. Self-contained mobile registration devices allow registrars to travel to villages and households, capturing events where they happen with offline capture and automatic sync once connectivity is restored.

Does the solution integrate with existing government systems?

The platform supports open standards and integration with national systems, including MOSIP, enabling secure exchange of records across health, identity and statistics authorities — with statistical extracts released free of personal identifiers.

How are vital statistics produced from registration?

Statistics are generated directly from validated registration records — aggregated by district, age and sex, with cause of death coded to ICD-11 — so demographic series are published without a separate collection exercise. Outputs follow the UN Principles and Recommendations for a Vital Statistics System.

How does CRVS differ from a one-off registration programme?

A national ID or voter enrolment captures a population at a single point in time. Civil registration runs continuously, recording each life event as it happens and keeping the population register accurate over many years.

How does civil registration connect to the national identity system?

Each life event is linked to the national identity database, so a birth creates an identity record and a death deactivates one. Biometric matching and deduplication prevent duplicate and fraudulent records across the register.

What support does Laxton provide for long-term operation?

Laxton supplies the hardware, software, monitoring, maintenance and consumables to run permanent registration points and periodic outreach campaigns over multi-year cycles, keeping services running without interruption.