Based on the data released on 20 December 2024, the National Capital Region (NCR) accounted for 180,524 registered live births representing 12.5 percent of the total 1,448,522 registered live births in the country in 2023.

The City of Taguig recorded 11,721 registered live births which accounted for 6.5 percent share of the NCR’s total of 180,524 for the year 2023. This was 8.6 percent higher than the total registered live births of 10,791 in 2022. On average, 977 live births were registered each month, equating to around 32 live births per day.

Most live births are attended by Health Professionals

Among the 11,721 live births in the City of Taguig in 2023, 11,147 were attended by health professionals, making up 95.1 percent of all live birth deliveries. Moreover, traditional birth attendants assisted with 530 live birth deliveries, accounting for 4.5 percent, while 44 births, or 0.4 percent of the total were handled by other attendants.

Majority of live births take place in Health Facilities

Of all registered live births in the City of Taguig in 2023, 94.7 percent or 11,096 live births took place in health care facilities. Meanwhile, home births accounted for 5.1 percent, or 592 live birth deliveries, while 33 live births or 0.3 percent occurred in other places.

The peak age of mothers at childbirth is 25-29 years old

The highest number of live births in 2023 was recorded among mothers aged 25 to 29 with 3,360 live births representing a 14.5 percent increase from the 2,935 live births recorded in 2022. Mothers aged 30 to 34 ranked second with 3,065 live births reflecting an 11.4 percent growth. The 20 to 24 age group ranked third, with 2,180 live births, representing a slight increase of 0.3 percent.

Live births among younger mothers showed mixed trends. Live births among those under 15 years old declined by 38.5 percent, from 26 in 2022 to 16 in 2023. The 15 to 19 age group also showed a decrease of 8.5 percent, totaling 722 live births. Meanwhile, live births among mothers aged 45 to 49 increased substantially by 35.0 percent. Similarly, the 35 to 39 and 40 to 44 age groups saw increases of 10.2 percent (from 1,641 in 2022 to 1,808 in 2023) and 19.2 percent (from 454 in 2022 to 541 births in 2023), respectively. However, the number of live births among mothers aged 50 and above, as well as those with unstated maternal age, remained at one.

Explanatory Note

Data on births presented in this release were obtained from the timely and late registered births at the Office of the City/Municipal Civil Registrars all throughout the country and submitted to the Office of the Civil Registrar General through the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) - Provincial Statistical Offices (PSOs). The information presented includes births that occurred from January to December 2023 based on data files received by the PSA - Civil Registration Service (CRS) from the PSOs and processed as of 31 August 2024. Figures presented herein are not adjusted for under registration. This release includes births of Filipinos whose usual residence is abroad and births of foreign nationals that occurred in the country during the reference period. Births of Filipinos abroad which were reported to the Philippine Foreign Service Posts are presented in a separate report.

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 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 Births include individuals who are born in the Philippines whose usual residence is in a foreign country.

Live Birth is a complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of conception, irrespective of the duration of the pregnancy, which after such separation, breathes or shows any other evidence of life, such as beating of the heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite movement of voluntary muscles, whether or not the umbilical cord has been cut or placenta is attached; each product of such birth is considered live born.

For more details, please visit www.psa.gov.ph: www.rssoncr.psa.gov.ph/NCRlll

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