The United Nations recommends that countries should register and collect information on the following vital events for civil registration and vital statistics purposes birth; death; foetal death; marriage; divorce; annulment; judicial separation; adoption; legitimation (acknowledgement); and recognition (judicial declarations of paternity).

The international recommendation for the high-priority vital events that are to be recorded is live births, marriages, divorces and deaths. The second Conference of African Ministers Responsible for Civil Registration has also recommended the recording of the four types of events. Therefore, in line with those recommendations, the scope of the civil registration and vital statistics improvement process is set to address live births, marriages, divorces and deaths. Please follow the link to UNICEF’s compilation of the Country CRVS profile.
 

Member States engaged in CRVS and legal identity initiatives across Africa.

Algeria

Angola

Benin

Botswana

Burkina Faso

Burundi

Cabo Verde

Cameroon

CAR

Chad

Comoros

Congo

Cote d'Ivoire

Djibouti

DRC

Egypt

Equatorial Guinea

Eritrea

Eswatini

Ethiopia

Gabon

Gambia, the

Ghana

Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Kenya

Lesotho

Liberia

Libya

Madagascar

Malawi

Mali

Mauritania

Mauritius

Morocco

Mozambique

Namibia

Niger

Nigeria

Rwanda

Senegal

Seychelles

Sierra Leone

Somalia

South Africa

South Sudan

STP

Sudan

Tanzania

Togo

Tunisia

Uganda

Zambia

Zimbabwe