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Vanuatu’s civil registration and vital statistics report presents the status of the civil registration and health information system of Vanuatu in regard to recording the occurrence and characteristics of live births, deaths and causes of death in the country.

P-SPAFS is a 10-year plan that aims to guide the development of agricultural and fisheries statistics in the Pacific Small Island Developing States.

While countries have multiple sources of demographic data, administrative data sources, and in particular civil registration systems are universally recognised for their fundamental function of providing governments with a continuous and permanent source of population data and statistics.

It is estimated that almost one-in-three babies born world-wide each year do not have their births registered (there are 51 million babies).

The Kiribati 2017 Gender Statistics Abstract is now available.

The 5th HOPS conference report is now available.

This report is the third of its type to be published by the department, despite its long history since the early 1970s under the Ministry of Finance.

This report is the 8th population census report of the kingdom since 1956, and the 6th census conducted by the Statistics Department.