Recent News

Cook Islands births, deaths, marriages should be recorded digitally, advocates SPC-led report

April 23, 2024
The Pacific Community (SPC) and Cook Islands government collaborated on this work with support from the Vital Strategies–Bloomberg Philanthropies Global Grants Program.

New Tonga Vital Statistics Reports

November 28, 2023
The Tonga National CRVS Committee has now endorsed for release their 2018-2020 Vital Statistics Report.

Assessing Inequalities in Registration of Births and Deaths in Fiji

November 11, 2023
Fiji is the first country, to our knowledge, to embark upon an in-depth quantitative inequality assessment,
examining differentials by sex, age, ethnicity, and mother’s marital status.

Niue is the first country in the world to fully implement the OpenCRVS software

November 9, 2023
A new digital civil registration and vital statistics system (CRVS) became available in Niue today, 9 November 2023.

Republic of Fiji Vital Statistics Report 2016-2021

September 25, 2023
This report provides statistics pertaining to births recorded by the Fiji Ministry of Health and Medical
Services (MHMS) and registered by the Civil Registration Office (CRO) for babies born during 2016-2021;
and deaths recorded by the MHMS for deaths that occurred during 2016-2021.

Assessment, Analysis and Redesign of Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Processes (CRVS) NIUE

September 5, 2023
This report documents the results of the work of the Niue’s CRVS stakeholders in assessing, analysing and redesigning birth and death registration processes using the ‘assessment, analysis, and redesign’ stage of the CRVS Systems Improvement Framework.

New Action Plan for CRVS

July 16, 2023
The improvement of civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems in the Pacific requires a diverse set of technical expertise that is not available in any one agency.

Civil registration and vital statistics systems in the Pacific, 2023

July 6, 2023
This compendium pulls together civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) country profiles for the Pacific Island region.