Reported deaths in 2018 reached 590,709, an increase of 2.0 percent from the previous year’s 579,237 deaths. This is equivalent to a crude death rate (CDR) of 5.6, or about six (6) persons per thousand population. In 2018, an average of 1,618 persons died daily. This translates to 67 deaths per hour or one (1) per minute.
In 2018, a total of 1,668,120 live births were registered, which is equivalent to a crude birth rate (CBR) of 15.8 or 16 births per thousand population.
The number of registered live births showed a decreasing trend, noticeably from 2012 to 2018. The decrease in the last six years was 6.8 percent, from 1,790,367 live births in 2012 to 1,668,120 recorded births in 2018. (See Figure 1 and Table 1)
