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Measuring Africa’s Data Gap: The cost of not counting the dead - February 22, 2021
Measuring Africa’s Data Gap: The cost of not counting the dead - February 22, 2021
Only eight African countries out of more than 50 have a compulsory system to register deaths, a BBC investigation has found.
This is not just a failure of the state to recognise individual tragedies but has enormous implications for the making of government policy.
All but two countries in Europe - Albania and Monaco - have a universal death registration system, and in Asia, just over half, analysis of UN data shows.
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