Region VII recorded a total of 140,585 number of registered births and this comprised 8.4 percent of the total number of registered births of 1,673,923 in the Philippines for the year 2019. This gathered an increase of 1.5 percent compared to the number of births registered in Region VII for the year 2018. The region ranked 4th with highest number of registered births in the country. (See Figure 1.) Read more about Statistics on Registered Births in Central Visayas 2019.