Voa development report - Keeping Count of Who Enters the World or Leaves

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is the VOA Special English Development Report. Governments may accused of keeping too many records on their people. no one seems to argue with recording births, deaths marriages. This is called civil registration. Birth and death help governments count populations and know how long people and what they die from. This information is important planning schools, hospitals and other services. A birth certificate also important for another reason. That piece of paper legal proof that an individual exists. Yet the World Organization believes that almost forty percent of all births unrecorded. It estimates that one hundred twenty-eight million babies born each year. So one way to look at is to say that every year close to fifty people are denied legal identities. And in the least countries the rate could be as high as seventy . The situation is no better for death records. Every fifty-seven million people die. But perhaps only one-third of deaths are counted. The WHO..., the United Nations health , has one hundred ninety-three member states. Yet it receives cause-of-death information from just thirty-one countries. Researchers say most countries have limited civil registration systems or none at . Now, a partnership supported by the WHO..., called the Metrics Network, will try to improve the situation. Last it launched a campaign to register all of the births and deaths. The effort was announced at a in Beijing, the Global Forum for Health Research. The general of the WHO..., Margaret Chan, said no single .. agency is responsible for making sure births and deaths recorded. Yet without these numbers, she says, who knows one hundred twenty billion dollars in official development aid year is being spent wisely? The campaign began with papers published in The Lancet medical journal describing the . Also, the Health Metrics Network is launching intensive efforts help six countries. The group has already started to with Cambodia, Sierra Leone and Syria. By the end this year, three more countries will be identified for to make sure everyone gets counted. And that's the Special English Development Report, written by Jill Moss. To more about civil registration, go to voaspecialenglishcom..

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