Juliet Jacob Ochenje
The Nigeria Population Commission (NPC) registered 420,000 births in Gombe State in 2023.
This was disclosed by the commission on Friday in the state.
The Head of NPC Civil Registration and Vital Statistics, Adedeji Adeniyi, who made the disclosure, added, “the registrations done in the state in more than 100 registration centres covered children of between 0 year and 17 years.”
NPC is the principal data mining commission responsible for collecting, collating, analysing, and publishing data about the Nigerian people and economy.
He said, “76, 900 of those registered were children below the age of one year, and 33,760 of them were girls while 43,140 were boys.
“Those between one year and four years old numbered 285, 010, and 125, 230 of them were girls, while 159, 780 were boys.
“Those between four years and 17 years of age numbered 62, 392 children. The girls were 28,293 in number while the boys numbered 34,099.”
According to Adeniyi, the NPC had stepped up measures and engaged in partnerships with critical stakeholders in the state to encourage birth registration.
He said that the commission had migrated from analogue mode of birth registration to the digital platform in partnership with UNICEF.
