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Table 1 Data availability

From: How useful are registered birth statistics for health and social policy? A global systematic assessment of the availability and quality of birth registration data

Region

Country

Years with dataa

Eastern Europe/Central Asia

Albania

1948, 1950–1967, 1969–1971, 1979–2013

North Africa/Middle East

Algeria

1964–1965, 1978–1980, 1985–1986

East Asia/Pacific

American Samoa

1952–1969, 1971–1973, 1976, 1982, 1984–2014

High Income

Andorra

2002–2012

Latin America/Caribbean

Antigua and Barbuda

1972–1975, 1977–1986, 1993, 1995

High Income

Argentina

1960–1966, 1968–1970, 1979–2014

Eastern Europe/Central Asia

Armenia

1982–1994, 1996–2000, 2002–2004, 2006–2009, 2014

Latin America/Caribbean

Aruba

1993–1995, 1997–2015

High Income

Australia

1948–2014, 2010–2015 [32]

High Income

Austria

1951–2015

Eastern Europe/Central Asia

Azerbaijan

1982–2004, 2006–2010, 2012–2014

Latin America/Caribbean

Bahamas

1968–1977, 1990–1992, 1996

North Africa/Middle East

Bahrain

1977–2014

Latin America/Caribbean

Barbados

1954–1980, 1982–1987, 1990–1991, 2005–2007

Eastern Europe/Central Asia

Belarus

1969–1973, 1986–1999, 2002–2014

High Income

Belgium

1947–1970, 1972–1983, 1986–1987, 1989–2015

Latin America/Caribbean

Bermuda

1962–1965, 1975–1989, 2006–2015

Eastern Europe/Central Asia

Bosnia and Herzegovina

1989–1991, 1996–2010, 2012

Latin America/Caribbean

Brazil

1994–1999, 2000–2015 [33]

High Income

Brunei Darussalam

1969–1974, 1976, 1978, 1981–1992, 1996–2002, 2006–2008, 2011–2014

Eastern Europe/Central Asia

Bulgaria

1949–1990, 1992–2014

Sub-Saharan Africa

Cabo Verde

1979–1985, 1990

High Income

Canada

1948–2009, 2010–2014 [34]

Latin America/Caribbean

Cayman Islands

1981–1983, 1986–1995, 2009, 2011–2014

High Income

Chile

1948–2003, 2005–2014, 1997–1999, 2005–2014 [35]

Latin America/Caribbean

Colombia

1998–2014 [36]

East Asia/Pacific

Cook Islands

1971–1977, 1979–1982

Latin America/Caribbean

Costa Rica

1953–1974, 1976–1991, 1994–1997, 1999–2014

Eastern Europe/Central Asia

Croatia

1988–2014

Latin America/Caribbean

Cuba

1965–1971, 1976–1989, 1991, 1993–2014

Latin America/Caribbean

Curaçao

2009–2015

High Income

Cyprus

1948–2014

Eastern Europe/Central Asia

Czech Republic

1991–2014

High Income

Denmark

1948–1966, 1968–2015

Latin America/Caribbean

Dominica

1960, 1966, 1969, 1985–1989, 2005–2006

Latin America/Caribbean

Ecuador

1992–2007, 2009–2010 [37]

North Africa/Middle East

Egypt

1965–1999, 2006–2012

Latin America/Caribbean

El Salvador

1948–2004, 2005–2007, 2010, 2012

Eastern Europe/Central Asia

Estonia

1986–2015

High Income

Faeroe Islands

1951–1966, 1968–1987, 1989, 2005–2007

East Asia/Pacific

Fiji

1948–1987, 2004, 2008

High Income

Finland

1948–2015

High Income

France

1948–1972, 1974–2009, 2011–2014, 2015 [38]

Latin America/Caribbean

French Guiana

1951–1970, 1972–1976, 1984–1985, 1996, 1998–2003, 2005–2007

East Asia/Pacific

French Polynesia

1968

Eastern Europe/Central Asia

Georgia

1989, 1992, 1994–1997, 1999–2015

High Income

Germany

1991–1997, 1999–2015

High Income

Greece

1956–1985, 1990–2015

High Income

Greenland

1952–1965, 1967–1986

Latin America/Caribbean

Grenada

1951–1969, 1978, 1997, 2000

Latin America/Caribbean

Guadeloupe

1950–1967, 1969–1970, 1975, 1978–1980, 1984–1986, 1991, 1999–2003

East Asia/Pacific

Guam

1949–1986, 1988–1992, 1999, 2001–2004, 2015

Latin America/Caribbean

Guatemala

1948–1973, 1975–1979, 1981–1999, 2006, 2009–2014 [39]

Latin America/Caribbean

Guyana

1954–1956, 1960–1961, 1967–1972,

East Asia/Pacific

Hong Kong

1969–2014

Eastern Europe/Central Asia

Hungary

1948–2015

High Income

Iceland

1948–2015

South Asia

India

2011–2015 [40]

North Africa/Middle East

Iran

2011–2013

High Income

Ireland

1955–2015

High Income

Isle of Man

1955–1961

High Income

Israel

1953–2015

High Income

Italy

1948–1964, 1973, 1980–1997, 1999–2015

Latin America/Caribbean

Jamaica

1948–1964, 1977–1984, 1986–1989,1995–1996, 2000–2004, 2016

High Income

Japan

1948–2010, 2012–2014, 2011, 2015 [41]

North Africa/Middle East

Jordan

1969–1979, 2000–2015 [42]

Eastern Europe/Central Asia

Kazakhstan

1987–2008, 2012–2013

Eastern Europe/Central Asia

Kosovo

2002–2003, 2005, 2008, 2011

North Africa/Middle East

Kuwait

1963–1970, 1972, 1987, 1991–2014

Eastern Europe/Central Asia

Kyrgyzstan

1980, 1982–2015

Eastern Europe/Central Asia

Latvia

1986–2015

North Africa/Middle East

Libya

1972–1977, 1981, 1996, 2000, 2002

High Income

Liechtenstein

1965–1966, 1968, 1978–1983, 1986, 1987, 1993, 2003–2014

Eastern Europe/Central Asia

Lithuania

1970–1977, 1985–2015

High Income

Luxembourg

1948–2014, 2015 [38]

East Asia/Pacific

Macao

1955–2015

East Asia/Pacific

Malaysia

1990–1997, 2001–2009, 2011–2015

East Asia/Pacific

Maldives

1996, 1999–2014

Sub–Saharan Africa

Mali

1897

High Income

Malta

1957–1990, 1992–2015

Latin America/Caribbean

Martinique

1950–1970, 1972–1976, 1984–1992, 1999–2003, 2005–2007

East Asia/Pacific

Mauritius

1990–2003, 2005–2015

Latin America/Caribbean

Mexico

1985–2015 [43]

Eastern Europe/Central Asia

Moldova

1987–1992, 1995–1996, 1998–2014

Eastern Europe/Central Asia

Mongolia

1980, 1990, 1994–2010, 2012–2015

Eastern Europe/Central Asia

Montenegro

1980, 1990, 2000, 2003–2009

Latin America/Caribbean

Montserrat

1982–1986, 1994–1999, 2010–2014

North Africa/Middle East

Morocco

1990–1991, 1993, 1995–2001

East Asia/Pacific

Nauru

1965–1968, 2009–2011

High Income

Netherlands

1948–2014, 2015 [38]

East Asia/Pacific

New Caledonia

1962–1968, 1970–1985, 1987, 1990–1994, 1996–2003, 2005–2007, 2010, 2012

High Income

New Zealand

1962–2015

East Asia/Pacific

Niue

1957–1962, 2009

East Asia/Pacific

Norfolk Island

1948–1972, 1974–1976, 1978–1981, 1983–1984, 1988,

High Income

Norway

1948–2014, 2015 [38]

North Africa/Middle East

Oman

2006–2015 [44]

East Asia/Pacific

Palau

1989–2005

Latin America/Caribbean

Panama

1950, 1952–2000, 2002–2003, 2005–2015

Latin America/Caribbean

Peru

2013–2015 [45]

East Asia/Pacific

Philippines

1990–1993, 1997–2007, 2009–2015

Eastern Europe/Central Asia

Poland

1950–2015

High Income

Portugal

1948–2015

Latin America/Caribbean

Puerto Rico

1948–1962, 1964–1985, 1987–1994, 1996–2000, 2002–2009, 2012–2015

North Africa/Middle East

Qatar

1985–1994, 1996–2010, 2012–2013

High Income

South Korea

1993–2014

East Asia/Pacific

Reunion

1950–1970, 1980, 1982–1986, 1989, 1993–1997, 2002–2003, 2005–2007

Eastern Europe/Central Asia

Romania

1955, 1957–2014, 2015 [38]

Eastern Europe/Central Asia

Russia

1960,1965, 1970, 1975, 1980–1989, 1991–2004, 2006–2011, 2013, 2014 [38]

High Income

Saint Pierre and Miquelon

1948–1952, 1959, 1963–1964, 1967, 1969, 1973–1977

Latin America/Caribbean

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

1952–1956, 1960–1964, 1977–1984, 1986, 1988, 1992–1994, 1996–2005, 2008–2009, 2013–2014

Latin America/Caribbean

Saint Kitts and Nevis

1956–1972, 1974–1991, 1993–1996

Latin America/Caribbean

St Lucia

1953–1961, 1963, 1975, 1978–1986, 1994–2002, 2004–2005

East Asia/Pacific

Samoa

1993

High Income

San Marino

1960–1989, 1992–1995, 1997–2004, 2011–2014

Sub-Saharan Africa

Sao Tome and Principe

1958, 1974–1979

Eastern Europe/Central Asia

Serbia

2000–2015

East Asia/Pacific

Seychelles

1982,1984–1985, 1990, 1992–1993, 1995–1996, 2004–2015

High Income

Singapore

1948–2015

Eastern Europe/Central Asia

Slovakia

1988–1995, 1997–2015

Eastern Europe/Central Asia

Slovenia

1987–2015

Sub-Saharan Africa

South Africa

1998–2015 [46]

High Income

Spain

1948–1983, 1985–2014, 2015 [38]

East Asia/Pacific

Sri Lanka

1952–1969, 1977–1989, 1991, 1995–1996, 2001, 2006–2010

Latin America/Caribbean

Suriname

1980–1986, 1988–2007, 2012–2014

High Income

Sweden

1948–2014, 2015 [38]

High Income

Switzerland

1948–1982, 1984–2014, 2015 [38]

East Asia/Pacific

Taiwan

1982–2014 [47]

Eastern Europe/Central Asia

Tajikistan

1989–1994, 2001–2003

Eastern Europe/Central Asia

TFYR of Macedonia

1989–2015

East Asia/Pacific

Thailand

1991–1992, 1994, 1997

Sub-Saharan Africa

Tonga

1990, 1993–2000, 2002–2003

Latin America/Caribbean

Trinidad and Tobago

1992–1995, 1997, 2002, 2004–2006, 2008–2009

North Africa/Middle East

Tunisia

1960, 1965–1972, 1974, 1977–1980, 1985–1989, 1992–1995, 1998, 2006–2007, 2011

North Africa/Middle East

Turkey

2009–2015

Eastern Europe/Central Asia

Turkmenistan

1989

Latin America/Caribbean

Turks and Caicos Islands

2001–2005

Eastern Europe/Central Asia

Ukraine

1969–1971, 1973–1975, 1987–1996, 1998, 2001–2004, 2006–2008, 2010–2012, 2014–2015

High Income

United Kingdom

1982–2004, 2007–2014, 2015 [38]

High Income

United States

1948–1989, 1991, 1993–2002, 2003–2015 [48]

Latin America/Caribbean

United States Virgin Islands

1948–1962, 1964–1967, 1969–1972, 1977–1997

High Income

Uruguay

1949–1954, 1963, 1977–1989, 1993, 1996–1997, 1999–2007, 2012–2014 [49]

Eastern Europe/Central Asia

Uzbekistan

1989, 1993–1997, 1999–2000, 2005–2015

Latin America/Caribbean

Venezuela

1990–1991, 1996, 1998–2002, 2005–2007, 2009–2015

East Asia/Pacific

Wallis and Futuna Islands

1969, 1996–2008

Eastern Europe/Central Asia

Yugoslavia

1994–1995

  1. aUnless otherwise specified with a citation, the source for data is [19] UN Statistics Division. UNSD Demographic Statistics [Internet]. United Nations; 2017. Available from: http://data.un.org