Characteristics of CRVS systems by region
| Number responding ‘yes’ | Total number of responses | Percentage of countries that responded ‘yes’ (%) | |
| An entity is responsible for CRVS | 15 | 15 | 100 |
| Ministry of Health or similar | 8 | 15 | 53 |
| Ministry of Interior or similar | 7 | 15 | 47 |
| Ministry of Justice or similar | 4 | 15 | 27 |
| Law exists that mandates birth and death registration | 13 | 14 | 93 |
| Vital statistics data are used in country | 13 | 15 | 87 |
| To quantify health service need | 7 | 12 | 58 |
| To analyse cost-effectiveness | 6 | 12 | 50 |
| To measure impact of disease programmes | 7 | 12 | 58 |
| National burden of disease estimates | 10 | 12 | 83 |
| Vital statistics system is currently funded | 13 | 14 | 93 |
| Domestic | 11 | 12 | 92 |
| Multilateral | 2 | 12 | 17 |
| Bilateral* | 6 | 12 | 50 |
| Private sector reports birth events using same electronic system | 6 | 9 | 67 |
| Private sector reports death events using same electronic system | 5 | 10 | 50 |
| Birth or death registration is required to access government services | 15 | 15 | 100 |
| Immunisations | 9 | 15 | 60 |
| Health insurance | 10 | 14 | 71 |
| School enrolment | 14 | 15 | 93 |
| Welfare | 10 | 15 | 67 |
| Legal services | 11 | 15 | 73 |
| Burials | 11 | 15 | 73 |
| Inheritance | 8 | 15 | 53 |
| Life insurance | 10 | 15 | 67 |
| Unique identifiers are used for vital statistics | 5 | 14 | 36 |
| National ID | 4 | 5 | 80 |
| Health ID | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| System-specific ID | 1 | 5 | 20 |
| Client demographics | 1 | 5 | 20 |
| Biometric data | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Security measures used for electronic vital statistics system | 8 | 11 | 73 |
| Physical barrier | 6 | 8 | 75 |
| Software barrier | 6 | 8 | 75 |
| Legal barrier | 4 | 8 | 50 |
| Encryption | 1 | 8 | 13 |
| Unique ID | 2 | 8 | 25 |
Missing or ‘N/A’ responses are excluded from the denominator number of responses.
*Bilateral organisations include both government agencies and non-government agencies.