THE NUMBER of registered deaths rose by more than 37% year on year in the first 11 months of 2021, while births declined nearly 24%, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said.
According to preliminary data from the PSA’s Vital Statistics report, deaths in the January-November period last year rose 37.2% to 768,504, with the Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon) region accounting for 123,451.
Metro Manila registered 93,047 deaths during the period.
Meanwhile, registered births declined by 23.8% to 1,076,770 in the 11 months to November.
Calabarzon led the regions with 163,647, which represents a contraction from the year-earlier tally of 232,606.
Metro Manila logged 128,223 births, much lower than the year-earlier total of 184,656.
Marriages registered with the PSA totaled 279,399, up 38.6% from a year earlier. Calabarzon was once more the leader with 39,309. Metro Manila marriages totaled 30,992, against the year earlier 27,149.
The information in the Vital Statistics report was compiled from tallies generated by city or municipal Civil Registrars, consolidated by the PSA’s Provincial Statistical Offices and then submitted to the Office of the Civil Registrar General. — Abigail Marie P. Yraola
