Birth Statistics

In the 4th Quarter of 2024, Romblon registered a total of 1,661 births, indicating a decrease of 174 births (-9.5 percent) compared to the 1,835 births reported during the same period in 2023. Meanwhile, there was an increase of 3.0 percent in the registered births in the fourth quarter of 2024 compared to the 1,612 births recorded in the third quarter of 2024.

The month of December 2024 emerged as the month with the highest number of births in Romblon during the reference period, totaling 596 (35.9 percent). It was followed by November and October with 545 and 520 registered births, respectively (Table 1).

Table 1. Registered Births by Month and Municipality: Romblon, 4th Quarter 2024

Source: Philippine Statistics Authority

In the past 12 months, the month of March 2024 registered the greatest number of registered births with 982 (59.1 percent), while the least number occurred in September 2024 with 500 (30.1 percent).

Figure 3 shows the distribution of the number of births by municipality in the province of Romblon during the fourth quarter of 2024. The municipality of Odiongan topped with 485 registered births or 29.2 percent of the total registered births during the quarter. It was followed by Looc with 221 or 13.3 percent and Romblon with 218 or 13.1 percent.

Meanwhile, the municipality of Ferrol registered the least number of births with 2, comprising about 0.1 percent of the total registered births in the province during the reference quarter.

(SGD) ENGR. JOHNNY F. SOLIS 
Chief Statistical Specialist 

Explanatory Note

The data on the number of births presented in this quarterly special release were obtained from the vital events registered, either timely or belatedly at the Office of the City/Municipal Civil Registrar throughout the province of Romblon and subsequently submitted to the Office of the Civil Registrar-General through the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) - Romblon Provincial Statistical Office.  The information presented includes the vital events that occurred in the 4th Quarter 2024, 3rd Quarter 2024, 4th Quarter of 2023 based on the data files received by the PSA – Civil Registration Services (CRS) and has undergone initial processing in the provincial office. The figures presented herein are still preliminary and may differ from the final official count.

Technical Notes

Live births shall be reported for registration to C/MCR not later than thirty (30) days from the date of birth.

Death or fetal death shall be reported to LHO within forty-eight (48) hours from the time of death and the LHO shall direct or cause the registration to the C/MCR not later than thirty (30) days from date of death.

Marriages that require the issuance of marriages license shall be reported to C/MCR for registration not later than fifteen (15) days from date of marriage. However, marriages that do not require a license such as marriage at the point of death (Article 27); marriages in remote places (Article 28); marriages between members of ethnic cultural community (Article 33); and marriages between men and women who have lived together for at least five (5) years (Article 34), shall be reported not later than thirty (30) day after date of marriage.

Any report made to the LCROs beyond the reglementary period are considered late and can be entered only in the civil register after the informant complies with the requirements for delayed registration.

DEFINITION OF TERMS

Live birth is the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a conception, irrespective of the duration of pregnancy, which, after such separation, breaths or shows any other evidence of life.

Marriage is a special contract of permanent union between a man and a woman entered into in accordance with law for the establishment of conjugal and family life.

Death is the permanent disappearance of all evidence of life at any time after live birth has taken place.