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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Measuring Africa’s Data Gap: The cost of not counting the dead
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Just eight countries in Africa have adequate death registration systems, a BBC investigation finds.