Based on the released data as of 21 May 2024, the National Capital Region (NCR) had 79,524 or 13.4 percent share from the total registered deaths of 593,827 in the country in 2023.  

The City of Makati recorded 2,975 or 3.7 percent share from the total number of registered deaths in NCR in 2023, lower by 3.8 percent than the total registered deaths of 3,091 in 2022. On average, a total of 248 deaths were registered monthly or an average of 8 deaths daily.

In NCR, Quezon City recorded the highest number of registered deaths with 17,682 (22.2 percent) while the Municipality of Pateros recorded the lowest number with 425 (0.5 percent) deaths.  The City of Makati ranked 7th with the lowest number of deaths in NCR from January to December 2023. Refer to Table 1 and Figure 2.

More deaths on males than females

There were more deaths on males than females in the City of Makati in 2023.  Out of 2,975 registered deaths, 54.8 percent were males while 45.2 percent were females. See Table 1 and Figure 3. 

June recorded the highest number of deaths

Figure 4 presents the months with the highest and lowest number of registered deaths from 2022 to 2023 in the City of Makati.  January in 2022 recorded the highest with 10.5 percent share (324), from the total number of deaths of 3,091, while June in 2023 registered the highest number of deaths with a total of 283 or 9.5 percent share.

Explanatory Notes

Data on deaths presented in this release were obtained from the Certificates of Death (Municipal Form No. 103) that were registered at the Office of the City/Municipal Civil Registrars throughout the country and forwarded to the Philippine Statistics Authority. This release shows an overview of the registered deaths that occurred from January to December 2023.  Deaths of Filipinos that occurred abroad which were reported to the Philippine Foreign Service Posts are presented in a separate report. The figures shown were not adjusted for under registration.

Vital Statistics are derived from information obtained at the time when the occurrences of vital events and their characteristics are inscribed in a civil register. Vital acts and events are the birth, deaths and marriages, and all such events that have something to do with an individual’s entrance and departure from life together with the changes in civil status that may occur to a person during his lifetime. Recording of these events in the civil register is known as vital or civil registration and the resulting documents are vital records.

Counts on Deaths include individuals who died in the Philippines whose usual residence is in a foreign country.

Death refers to the permanent disappearance of all evidence of life at any time after live birth has taken place (postnatal cessation of vital function without capability of resuscitation).

Usual Residence of Deceased refers to place of residence of the deceased at the time of death.

Daily Average refers to the arithmetic mean of death occurrences per day.

Monthly Average refers to the arithmetic mean of death occurrences per month.

For more details, please visit www.psa.gov.ph; www.rssoncr.psa.gov.ph/ncr3.

NARCISO H. DINO
(Supervising Statistical Specialist)
Officer-In-Charge
NCR III Provincial Statistics Office