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SR-2025-0826-12
Explanatory Note The data on the number of births, marriages, and deaths (vital events) presented in this regular monthly release were obtained from the vital events registered, either timely or belatedly, at the appropriate Office of the City/Municipal Civil Registrar throughout the country and subsequently submitted for encoding to the Office of the Civil Registrar General through the Provincial Statistical Offices (PSOs) of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). The information presented includes births, marriages, and deaths that occurred from January to June 2024, based on data files received by the PSA - Civil Registration Service (CRS) from the PSOs and has undergone initial processing as of 28 February 2025. Thus, the figures presented herein are still provisional and may differ from the final count. The vital events of Filipinos abroad are not yet included in this release, but Filipinos whose usual residence is abroad and foreign nationals with vital events occurring in the country during the reference period were included in this report. |
1,192 live births recorded in the first semester of 2024
In the first semester of 2024, the Eastern Visayas Region registered a total of 24,278 live births, a decrease of 19.3 percent from 30,069 live births recorded in the first semester of 2023.
Meanwhile, Eastern Samar recorded a total of 1,192 live births in the first semester of 2024, indicating a 62.1 percent decrease from the 3,147 live births registered in the same period last year. (Figure 1)
January records the highest number of births
In the first semester of 2024, the number of births recorded was highest in January at 468, equivalent to approximately 15 births per day. On the contrary, the month of May registered the lowest number of births at 16. (Figure 2)
Registered marriages down by 59.7 percent in the first semester of 2024
The number of registered marriages by usual residence in the Eastern Visayas Region in the first semester of 2024 experienced a decrease with 7,248 marriages from 8,045 marriages in the same semester of 2023.
On the other hand, Eastern Samar recorded a total of 387 marriages, indicating a 59.7 percent decrease from 961 marriages in the same period last year. (Figure 3)
February records the highest number of marriages
In the first semester of 2024, the number of marriages registered was highest in February at 181, equivalent to approximately 6 marriages per day. Meanwhile, no marriages were recorded in the months of May and June. (Figure 4)
811 deaths registered in the first semester of 2024
The Eastern Visayas Region registered a total of 13,648 deaths in the first semester of 2024, showing a 12.5 percent decrease from 15,591 deaths registered in the same period in 2023.
On the other hand, Eastern Samar recorded 811 deaths in the first semester of 2024. This translates to a 51.1 percent decrease from the first semester of 2023, where 1,658 deaths were registered. (Figure 5)
January records the highest number of deaths
The number of deaths recorded was highest in January at 285, equivalent to approximately 6 marriages per day. Meanwhile, no marriages were recorded in the months of May and June. (Figure 6)
TECHNICAL NOTES
Vital statistics are derived from information obtained at the time when the occurrences of vital events and their characteristics are inscribed in a civil register.
Vital acts and events are the births, deaths, fetal deaths, marriages, and all such events that have something to do with an individual's entrance and departure from life together with the changes in civil status that may occur to a person during his lifetime. Recording of these events in the civil register is known as vital or civil registration and the resulting documents are called vital records.
Live Birth - complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of conception, irrespective of the duration of the pregnancy, which after such separation, breathes or shows any other evidence of life, such as beating of the heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite movement of voluntary muscles, whether or not the umbilical cord has been cut or the placenta is attached; each product of such a birth is considered liveborn.
Marriage - a contract of permanent union between a man and a woman entered into in accordance with law for the establishment of conjugal and family life.
Death - the permanent disappearance of all evidence of life at any time after live birth has taken place (postnatal cessation of vital function without capability of resuscitation).
FOR THE CHIEF STATISTICAL SPECIALIST:
SUZANNE B. AMOSCO
(Supervising Statistical Specialist)
Officer-In-Charge
