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 Municipality of Pateros recorded a total of 760 registered live births, which accounted for a 0.4 percent share of the total number of registered live births in NCR in 2023. This figure was 4.6 percent lower than the total registered live births of 797 in 2022. On average, a total of 63 live births were registered monthly, or an average of two live births daily.

Most live births are attended by Health Professionals

Out of the 760 total registered live births in the Municipality of Pateros in 2023, the majority were attended by health professionals, accounting for 751 or 98.8 percent. Moreover, 7 or 0.9 percent were attended by traditional health attendants, while only 2 or 0.3 percent of the total number of live births were attended by other attendants.

Majority of live births take place in Health Facilities

For the year 2023, the majority of registered live births in the Municipality of Pateros took place in health facilities, accounting for 740, or 97.4 percent, of the total registered live births. Only 19, or 2.5 percent, of the total live births were delivered at home, while 0.1 percent were delivered in other locations.

The peak age of mothers at childbirth is 30-34 years old

In 2023, mothers aged 30 to 34 recorded the highest number of live births, totaling 259, which represented a 4.1 percent decrease from the previous year. This was followed by mothers aged 25 to 29 with 249 live births, which reflected a 0.4 percent rise. Mothers aged 35 to 39 came next, having registered 123 live births, which marked an 8.2 percent decrease compared to the previous year.

Live births among younger mothers showed a decline, with those aged 15 to 19 exhibited a 50.0 percent drop, falling from 14 in 2022 to 7 in 2023. Similarly, mothers in the 20 to 24 age group saw a sharp decrease of 13.7 percent, dropping from 102 births in 2022 to 88 in 2023. On the other hand, live births among older mothers showed an increase. The 40 to 44 age group demonstrated a 14.8 percent rise, with live births rising from 27 in 2022 to 31 in 2023. Furthermore, mothers aged 45 to 49 manifested a 50.0 percent increase, growing from 2 live births in 2022 to 3 in 2023.

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.

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