A Comparative Analysis of Laws on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems : Estonia, Ethiopia, Vietnam, and South Korea
If one lives in a society in which unique identification numbers (UINs) are assigned upon registration of birth and such registration almost always occurs immediately after birth and in which the UIN allows the individual to access the system of so...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/237491510746694949/A-comparative-analysis-of-laws-on-civil-registration-and-vital-statistics-systems-Estonia-Ethiopia-Vietnam-and-South-Korea http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28967 |
| Summary: | If one lives in a society in which
unique identification numbers (UINs) are assigned upon
registration of birth and such registration almost always
occurs immediately after birth and in which the UIN allows
the individual to access the system of social welfare and
services, it is hard to imagine that a person can exist
without any state-recognized systematic registration
process, but this is reality in many parts of the world.
Whereas citizens of the developed world take registration of
vital events such as births, deaths, marriages, and divorces
as a matter of course, the births of millions of babies born
every year around the world are not registered, and more
than half of the deaths on earth are not recorded. The
government of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic requested
support from the World Bank Group to help review its 2009
Family Registration Law in preparation for amendment of the
law, which is expected to be submitted to the ordinary
session of the National Assembly, VIII Legislature in April
2018. Accordingly, Korea Legislation Research
Institute's (KLRI) Office of Global Legal Research was
enlisted to conduct the requested research by comparing the
civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) laws of four
countries with diverse systems: Estonia, Ethiopia, Vietnam,
and South Korea. The findings may also be of interest to
other countries that are considering reviewing, amending, or
enacting CRVS laws. |
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