Pakistan records highest number of unregistered Births and Deaths

Citizen identification systems are fundamental for citizens and for the State in its role as a public service provider. From a citizen’s identification perspective, the life cycle begins in the Civil Registry, materialised by a birth certificate subsystem, and ends in the same subsystem through the issue of a death certificate. But in Pakistan, this basic form of citizen identification system remains largely absent.

According to Unicef’s annual report 2023, 60 percent of children in...