BMJ Global Health Surveys included % children under five without birth registration Region Country World Bank income group* N Years and data sources First survey Most recent survey East Asia and Pacific Cambodia Low income 3 2005 (DHS), 2010 (DHS), 2014 (DHS) 33.6 26.7 Indonesia Lower-­middle income 2 2007 (DHS), 2012 (DHS) 49.4 33.4 Lao Lower-­middle income 3 2000 (MICS), 2006 (MICS), 2011 (MICS) 40.6 25.2 Mongolia Lower-­middle income 4 2000 (MICS), 2005 (MICS), 2010 (MICS), 2013 (MICS) 2.4 0.7 Myanmar Lower-­middle income 2 2000 (MICS), 2015 (DHS) 39.4 18.7 Thailand Upper-­middle income 2 2005 (MICS), 2012 (MICS) 0.6 0.5 Vietnam Lower-­middle income 4 2000 (MICS), 2006 (MICS), 2010 (MICS), 2013 (MICS) 27.8 3.9 Albania Lower-­middle income 2 2000 (MICS), 2008 (DHS) 1.2 1.4 Armenia Lower-­middle income 2 2005 (DHS), 2010 (DHS) 3.6 0.4 Azerbaijan Lower-­middle income 2 2000 (MICS), 2006 (DHS) 3.2 6.4 Kazakhstan Upper-­middle income 3 2006 (MICS), 2010 (MICS), 2015 (MICS) 0.8 0.3 Kyrgyzstan Lower-­middle income 3 2005 (MICS), 2012 (DHS), 2014 (MICS) 5.7 2.3 Macedonia Upper-­middle income 2 2005 (MICS), 2011 (MICS) 6.2 0.3 Moldova Lower-­middle income 3 2000 (MICS), 2005 (DHS), 2012 (MICS) 2.1 0.4 Montenegro Upper-­middle income 2 2005 (MICS), 2013 (MICS) 2.1 0.6 Serbia Upper-­middle income 3 2005 (MICS), 2010 (MICS), 2014 (MICS) 1.0 0.6 Tajikistan Low income 3 2000 (MICS), 2005 (MICS), 2012 (DHS) 25.4 11.6 Turkmenistan Upper-­middle income 2 2006 (MICS), 2015 (MICS) 4.5 0.4 Ukraine Lower-­middle income 2 2005 (MICS), 2012 (MICS) 0.2 0.2 Uzbekistan Low income 2 2000 (MICS), 2006 (MICS) 0.5 0.1 Lower-­middle income 2 2006 (MICS), 2011 (MICS) 5.6 4.8 Europe and Central Asia Latin America and Belize the Caribbean Bolivia Middle East and North Africa South Asia Lower-­middle income 2 2000 (MICS), 2008 (DHS) 18.4 24.1 Dominican Rep Upper-­middle income 3 2000 (MICS), 2007 (DHS), 2014 (MICS) 25.4 12.0 Guyana Lower-­middle income 4 2000 (MICS), 2006 (MICS), 2009 (DHS), 2014 (MICS) 3.5 11.3 Haiti Low income 2 2005 (DHS), 2012 (DHS) 18.9 20.3 Honduras Lower-­middle income 2 2005 (DHS), 2011 (DHS) 6.5 6.4 Suriname Upper-­middle income 2 2006 (MICS), 2010 (MICS) 3.4 1.1 Iraq Lower-­middle income 2 2000 (MICS), 2011 (MICS) 1.9 0.8 State of Palestine Lower-­middle income 2 2010 (MICS), 2014 (MICS) 0.7 0.7 Yemen Lower-­middle income 2 2006 (MICS), 2013 (DHS) 77.7 69.3 Afghanistan Low income 2 2010 (MICS), 2015 (DHS) 62.7 57.7 Bangladesh Lower-­middle income 3 2006 (MICS), 2012 (MICS), 2014 (DHS) 90.2 79.8 India Lower-­middle income 2 2005 (DHS), 2015 (DHS), 58.9 20.3 Nepal Low income 3 2006 (DHS), 2011 (DHS), 2016 (DHS) 65.0 43.8 Pakistan Lower-­middle income 2 2006 (DHS), 2012 (DHS) 73.4 66.4 BMJ Global Health: first published as 10.1136/bmjgh-2019-001926 on 16 December 2019. Downloaded from https://gh.bmj.com on 21 July 2025 by guest. Protected by copyright, including for uses related to text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies. Table 1 Percentage of children under five without birth registration at the first and most recent survey in the sample of countries (n=67) and surveys (n=173) included Continued Bhatia A, et al. BMJ Global Health 2019;4:e001926. doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2019-001926 5