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Civil registration and vital statistics benefit health, child protection, and governance

Civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) record births, deaths, and other major life events that are essential to understanding the development of a country and its people. The associated personal identification and data are critical to ensuring human rights and the monitoring of 12 of the 17 SDGs. Yet CRVS gaps persist, and calculations suggest that 77 of the 100 countries still without a functioning CRVS system will collectively require US$220 million in investments. 

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