SPECIAL RELEASE

Oriental Mindoro Birth, Marriage, and Death Statistics
for Fourth Quarter 2023
(Provisional, as of 31 May 2024)

Figure 1. Number of Timely Registered Births, Marriages, and Deaths, Oriental Mindoro: Fourth Quarter 2022, Third Quarter 2023, and Fourth Quarter 2023

Birth Statistics

In the fourth quarter of 2023, Oriental Mindoro documented a total of 3,556 registered births, indicating a decrease of 271 births (-07.1 percent) compared to the 3,827 births reported during the same period in 2022. Conversely, there was an increase of 3.6 percent in registered births in the fourth quarter of 2023 compared to the 3,431 births recorded in the first quarter of the same year.

October recorded the highest number of births in Oriental Mindoro during the reference period, with a total of 1,210. November and December followed with 1,198 and 1,148 registered births, respectively.

Figure 2. Number of Registered Births by Month in Oriental Mindoro: 
October 2022 to December 2023

In 2023, more males (6,645 or 52.3 percent share) were born than female (6,054 or 47.7 percent share), resulting in a sex ratio at birth of 110 males per 100 females. (Figure 3)

Figure 3. Percent Distribution of Registered Live Births by Sex, Oriental Mindoro: 2023

Marriage Statistics

During the fourth quarter of 2023, there was a significant decline of 19.09 percent (177 marriages) in the 750 recorded unions when compared with the 927 registered marriages in the same quarter in 2022.

Figure 4. Number of Registered Marriages by Month in Oriental Mindoro: 
October 2022 to December 2023

In the fourth quarter of 2023, December had the highest number of marriages, with a total of 363. In comparison, October and November recorded 262 and 125 marriages, respectively.

Death Statistics

During the fourth quarter of 2023 there was a decline in the number of deaths, with a total of 1,492 deaths recorded in the province. This figure reflects a decrease of 32 registered deaths compared to the same quarter of the previous year, which had 1,524 deaths.

Figure 5. Number of Registered Deaths by Month in Oriental Mindoro: 
October 2022 to December 2023

In the fourth quarter of 2023, December reported the highest number of deaths in the province, totaling 555. November and October followed with 491 and 446 registered deaths, respectively.

Figure 6. Percent Distribution of Registered Live Births by Sex, Oriental Mindoro: 2022

In Oriental Mindoro, males (3,284 or 57.1 percent share) had a higher number of deaths compared to females (2,468 or 42.9 percent share), resulting in a sex ratio of 133 males per 100 females. (Figure 6)

Explanatory Note

The data on the number of births, marriages, and deaths 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 Oriental Mindoro and subsequently submitted to the Office of the Civil Registrar-General through the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) - Oriental Mindoro Provincial Statistical Office (PSO).  The information presented includes the vital events that occurred in the Fourth Quarter 2022, Third Quarter 2023, and Fourth Quarter 2023 based on the data files received by the PSA – Civil Registration Services (CRS) and has undergone initial processing as of 31 May 2024.  The figures presented herein are still provisional and may differ from the final count.

(SGD) CHARLYN ROMERO-CANTOS, PhD
(Chief Administrative Officer)
Officer-in-Charge
Oriental Mindoro Provincial Statistical Office

JAMN

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.