Birth Registration – World Bank Dataset
produced using: R (packages: ggplot2)
Description
These are some insights taken from a dataset created by the World Bank that focuses on countries and birth registration statistics.
Birth Registration and National ID
As seen in this graph, it looks like most countries require both a birth registration and a national ID to be mandatory with almost 150 countries having these policies. Around 25 countries that require a birth registration make having a national ID optional, and about 15 countries have a mandatory birth registration but no national ID. Additionally, it appears that a very small number of countries do not make birth registration mandatory. Out of these countries that do not have a mandatory birth registration, most of them do require a national ID. Only a very small number of countries do not have a mandatory birth registration and also do not have a national ID. Overall, most countries tend to have strict national ID and birth registry policies.
This graph is similar to the previous one except that it also shows the ID policies of different countries by region. In general, the charts in this graph follow a similar pattern: the majority of countries within each region make both birth registration and having a national ID mandatory. In the Middle East and South Asia regions, all the countries have a policy that makes registration at birth mandatory. All the countries in these regions also have national IDs (although for some of them having a national ID is only optional). Additionally, the Africa, Latin America, and Europe/Central Asia regions have very similar patterns as seen in the main graph in g2, where the vast majority of the countries require NID and birth registration. The East Asia/Pacific region differs from all the other regions since it’s the only instance where the number of countries that do not have any national ID is larger than the number of countries where a national ID exists but is optional.
Poverty and Registration Percentage
This is a point graph between the percent of the population below the poverty line and the percent of the population of unregistered citizens while also differentiating whether the country is “Free”, “Partly Free”, or “Not Free” as categorized by the World Bank. There is also a line drawn for each level of freedom to differentiate any possible difference between the three groupings. It does look like there is a positive relationship between the percent of people below the poverty line and the percent of unregistered citizens in general. Interestingly, the level of freedom for a country appears to influence the strength of this effect where countries that are rated as “Free” have lower percentages of unregistered citizens when the percent below poverty increases than countries that are not considered to be free.
