Central Visayas registered more than one hundred twenty thousand births

For the year 2020, registered births by usual residence of the mother in Region VII reached to 128,152 which contributed to 8.4 percent to the total 1,528,739 registered births in the Philippines. The region ranked 4^th in all regions with highest number of reported births in the country, next to Central Luzon with 179,607 and followed by region V (Bicol Region) 96,634. (See Figure 1.)   

Cebu Province registered more than 86 thousand births

In the four provinces of Central Visayas, Cebu Province had the highest record of registered births in 2020 reaching to 52,978 contributing 41.3 percent to the total registered births in Central Visayas. Moreover, Negros Oriental reported 21,271 registered births or 16.6 percent and Bohol with 19, 210 registered births or 15.0 percent. Siquijor with the lowest number of registered births, comprises to only 1 percent or 1,307 registered births in the region. Among highly urbanized cities (HUCs), Cebu City contributed to 13.6 percent or 17,380, this was followed by Lapu-Lapu City with 9,326 or 7.3 percent and Mandaue City with 6,680 or 5.2 percent to the regional share. (See Figure 2.)

More male births than female births registered in Central Visayas

In Central Visayas, for the year 2020, registered male births is higher than female births. With 66,837 registered male births contributing 52 percent makes it higher by 4 percentage points to the registered female births contributing 48 percent or 61,315 female registered births. (See Figure 3.)

Registered births by Sex in the provinces

Of the provinces in Region VII, Cebu Province had the highest number of both male and female registered births with 27,719 males and 25, 529 females, this was followed by Negros Oriental with 11,057 males and 10, 214 females. Siquijor reported the lowest number of births with less than 700 hundred births both male and female. Moreover, the three HUC’s also had more registered males than females. Cebu City had the highest registered birth of both sexes with 9,147 males and 8,233 females, followed by Lapu-Lapu City with 4,826 males and 4,500 females and Mandaue City with 3,478 males and 3,202 females (See Figure 4.)

October marked the highest number of registered births in 2020

Registered births reported its highest record in 2020 in the month of October with 12,274 births or 9.6 percent, followed by September with 12,121 births or 9.5 percent and November with 12, 019 births or 9.4 percent. March obtained the lowest number of registered births of the same year with 8,688 registered births or 6.8 percent. Moreover, comparing the registered births per month in 2019 and 2020, only the month of January had an increase with 0.03 percent while February to December of 2020 had lower registered births compared to the same period in 2019. Meanwhile, March has the highest percent change with 17.1 percent decrease (See figure 5.)

Technical Notes:

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 the vital events that occurred from January to December 2020 based on data files received by the PSA - Civil Registration Service (CRS) from the PSOs as of 16 July 2021. Thus, the figures presented herein are still preliminary and may differ at the final count. (1) 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.

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.

Approved by:

ARIEL E. FLORENDO
Regional Director