B. Strategic objectives identified to improve timeliness and accuracy of vital statistics including causes of death to achieve trusted statistics Table 3 Strategic outcome 2: Trusted statistics Strategic objectives 2.1: Improve availability of vital statistics based on civil registration including cause of death Expected outputs Countries publish annual vital statistics on birth, death, marriage, divorce and cause of death from civil registration 2.2: Harmonize vital statistics production from civil registration through standards, concepts and methods 2.3: Promote the use of vital statistics from civil registration Countries produce vital statistics, in line with international standards, concepts and methods Increased use of vital statistics produced from civil registration systems Indicators Number of countries publishing annual statistics on birth from civil registration Number of countries publishing annual statistics on death from civil registration Number of countries publishing annual cause-of-death statistics Number of countries publishing annual statistics on marriages from civil registration Number of countries publishing annual statistics on divorces from civil registration Number of countries applying international standards, concepts and methods in the production of vital statistics from civil registration Number of countries using data from civil registration and vital statistics systems for policy and programme purposes Number of countries using vital statistics from civil registration to produce population estimates and projections Number of countries using death rates from civil registration to produce life tables in official statistics Number of countries using vital statistics from civil registration to evaluate completeness or quality of population census results 17