Child Protection Officer (Birth Registration)

UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund

Lagos (+2 others)

According to data published by the United Nations Children’s Fund, sub-Saharan Africa accounts for 57 per cent of all unregistered births worldwide. The Nigeria MICS report (2021) indicates that 50.3 percent of live births, a little more than half of children under 1 year of age had their births registered, and 57.3 percent for children under 5 registered, and 36.0 percent of children under 5 with birth certificates and a much lower number in possession of birth certificates for children under 1.

Regarding death registration, data from WHO show that Nigeria lags far behind other global regions, with only 10 per cent of deaths registered in Nigeria with insufficient capacity of producing statistics on the causes of death.

In an underperforming civil registration system, individuals remain unrecorded and hence unrecognized by the State. Civil registration records are the desirable source of vital statistics; however, Nigeria has not benefited from a continuous supply of reliable data... More Detail

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