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2024-SR07-015

Central Visayas registered more than one hundred thousand births

 

For the year 2022, registered births by place of occurrence in Region VII reached to 119,004 which contributed to 8.18 percent to the total 1,455,393 registered births in the Philippines. Central Visayas ranked fourth in all regions with highest number of reported births in the country, next to Region III (Central Luzon) with 170,736 and followed by Region V (Bicol Region) with 96,879.

 

 

More male births than female births registered in Central Visayas

 

In Central Visayas, for the year 2022, registered male births are higher than female births. With 61,945 registered male births contributing 52.1 percent makes it higher by 4.2 percentage points to the registered female births contributing 47.9 percent or 57,059 female registered births.

 

 

Registered births by Sex in the provinces

Of the province in Region VII, Cebu Province had the highest number of both male and female registered births with 22,211 males and 20,672 females, followed by Negros Oriental with 10,824 males and 9,773 females. Siquijor reported the lowest number of births with less than 600 births for both sexes. Moreover. The three HUCs also had more registered males than females. Cebu City had the highest registered birth of both sexes with 11,006 males and 9,887 females, followed by Mandaue City with 4,510 males and 4,251 females, and Lapu-Lapu City with 3,756 males and 3,575 females.

 

September marked the highest number of registered births in 2022

 

Registered births reported its highest record in 2020 in the month of September with 11,659 births, followed by October with 11,618 births, and November with 11,094 births. February obtained the lowest number of registered births of the same year with 8,307 registered births.

 

 

Cebu Province leads Central Visayas births with 36.0 percent 

 

Among provinces in Central Visayas, Cebu Province accounted for the most registered births in 2022 with 42,883 or 36.0 percent, followed by Negros Oriental with 20,597 or 17.3 percent and Bohol with 17,482 or 14.7 percent. Siquijor registered the least number at 1,057 or 0.9 percent. For Highly Urbanized Cities (HUCs), Cebu City had the highest number of births at 20,893 or 17.6 percent. Mandaue City and Lapu-Lapu City followed with 8,761 or 7.4 percent and 7,331 or 6.2 percent registered births, respectively.

 

*Cebu excluding City of Cebu, City of Lapu-Lapu and City of Mandaue

 

Table A. Number of Registered Births by Sex in Central Visayas, 2022 

Region/Province

Number of Registered Births by Sex

Both Sexes

Male

Female

Central Visayas

119,004

61,945

57,059

Bohol

17,482

9,097

8,385

Cebu

42,883

22,211

20,672

Negros Oriental

20,597

10,824

9,773

Siquijor

1,057

541

516

City of Cebu

20,893

11,006

9,887

City of Lapu-Lapu

7,331

3,756

3,575

City of Mandaue

8,761

4,510

4,251

 

Table B. Number of Registered Live Births by Month and Place of Occurrence, Central Visayas: 2022

Month

Region, Province and City/Municipality

Region VII

Bohol

Cebu

Negros Oriental

Siquijor

City of Cebu

City of Lapu-Lapu

City of Mandaue

January

9,927

1,465

3,644

1,804

99

1,696

629

590

February

8,307

1,170

3,074

1,481

102

1,460

514

506

March

8,823

1,310

3,154

1,643

82

1,532

503

599

April

8,382

1,253

2,952

1,601

73

1,450

467

586

May

8,810

1,243

3,195

1,605

67

1,543

506

651

June

9,412

1,277

3,517

1,536

68

1,668

599

747

July

10,118

1,456

3,650

1,687

90

1,793

661

781

August

10,204

1,490

3,574

1,739

91

1,864

661

785

September

11,659

1,752

4,119

1,958

92

2,051

740

947

October

11,618

1,780

4,189

1,910

99

2,009

742

889

November

11,094

1,640

4,018

1,815

99

1,951

700

871

December

10,650

1,646

3,797

1,818

95

1,876

609

809

Total

119,004

17,482

42,883

20,597

1,057

20,893

7,331

8,761

*Cebu excluding City of Cebu, City of Lapu-Lapu and City of Mandaue

 

 

 

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. 

Live Birth » is the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of conception, irrespective of the duration of pregnancy, which, after such separation, breathes or shows any other evidence of life. 

Month of Occurrence » refers to the month where the vital event took.

 

Source: Philippine Statistics Authority (Data on live births are those registered at the Office of the City/Municipal Registrars throughout the country and submitted to the Office of the Civil Registrar General; Certificate of Live Birth-Municipal Form No. 102)                                                         

Note: Figures are results of actual registration without any adjustment of under registration.

 

Approved by:

 

 

 

(SGD.) ARIEL E. FLORENDO

Regional Director

 

 

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