Vital Statistics for Sierra Leone, 2016

The office of the Registrar of Births and Deaths in Sierra Leone recorded a total of 34, 536 deaths during 2016.

Figures show an increase in the death statistics of nearly 10,000 from the total of 24, 300 in the previous year 2015, the births and deaths office said.

The report also recorded a total of 293, 698 new live births in 2016, showing a corresponding increase of 38,698 in the birth rate from 2015.

A total of 1,755 stillbirths were also recorded in 2016, also slight increase of 45 from the previous year.

These figures include only cases officially reported and registered with the Sierra Leone Births and Deaths Office. It does not account for unreported deaths and births that may have occurred in remote and isolated communities across the country.

Conclusion: Death numbers increased countrywide in 2016 more than the two previous years of 2014 and 2015 when the country was besieged by the Ebola outbreak.

The office of the Registrar of Births and Deaths is a unit of the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS) and is responsible for vital registration.

District Registrars are employees of local councils but are supervised by staff of the MoHS. Almost all of the 149 Chiefdoms have a Community Health Officer (an employee of MoHS) who registers births and deaths.

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