E/escap/cst/inf/9: Improving vital statistics and cause of death statistics: The experience of Thailand

Specific measures taken to improve the vital statistics  

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The latest completeness estimate from the SPC suggests that the coverage of death 

registration in Thailand is now close to 95% of all adult deaths. Overall, 395,374 deaths were 

registered in 2005, about 100,000 more than a decade or so earlier (see Table 2). Most of the increase 

can be attributed to improved registration practices, the strengthening of the legal framework in 1991, 

the fact that administrative arrangements for reporting events have been expanded to cover even 

villages and remote areas, and to the full computerization of data collection since 2004.   

 

Table 2. Total number of registered births and deaths, estimated mid-year population and 

percentages of hospital deaths and ill-defined causes of death derived from vital registration,