Data on deaths presented in this special release were obtained from the Certificates of Death submitted by the Office of the City/Municipal Civil Registrars in their monthly report throughout the region to the Philippine Statistics Authority - Provincial Statistical Offices (PSO). Said data were encoded or uploaded into the Vital Events Information (VEI)  in 2024 in the respective PSOs. 

Figures presented herein cover the first quarter of 2024, which are still preliminary and may differ in the final counts.

Registered Deaths in the Region increased

•    A total of 3,224 deaths were registered during the second quarter of 2024 in the Cordillera Administrative Region. The figure showed an increase of 23.5 percent in the number of deaths from the previous year’s record of 2,611.

•    An average of 35 persons died daily or one person died every hour in the Region.

•    Among the provinces, Abra ranked first in terms of the registered during the second quarter of 2024, with a total of 968 or 30.02 percent share of the total registered deaths in the Region. Benguet came in second with 502, followed by Kalinga with 309, Mountain Province, Apayao, and Ifugao registered the least with 249, 268, and 225, respectively.

•    Comparing the two periods, Baguio City recorded a decrease of registered deaths by 2.70 percent from the 2nd quarter of 2023 to the 2nd quarter of 2024. Same with the province of Benguet with 16.53 percent. On the other hand, Abra posted the highest percent increase at 62.09 percent from 367 deaths in the 2nd quarter of 2023 to 968 deaths in the 2nd quarter of 2024.

Table 1. Number and Daily Average of Registered Deaths: CAR
2nd Quarter 2024 and 2nd Quarter 2023

Registered deaths peak in April

•    During the first quarter of 2024, mortality was at its peak in April with total registered deaths of 1,173. The number of deaths in April 2024 translates to an average of 13 death occurrences per day. June posted the lowest number of registered deaths with 1,016 or 31.51 percent.

Table 2. Number of Registered Deaths by Month: CAR, 2nd Quarter 2024 

•    Seventy-nine percent of 3,224 registered deaths in the Cordillera Administrative Region were timely registered, or whose deaths were within 30 days after the occurrence.

•    The highest percentage share of timely registered was in Baguio City with 26.14 percent, followed by Abra and Benguet with 18.89 percent and 17.10 percent, respectively. Meanwhile, the province of Abra has the biggest percentage share of deaths which was reported late at 63.72 percent.

Table 3. Number and Percentage Distribution of Registered Deaths by Registration Status: 
CAR, 2nd Quarter 2024

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VILLAFE P. ALIBUYOG
Regional Director
PSA - RSSO CAR
 

Technical Notes

Vital statistics are derived from information obtained when the occurrences of vital events and their characteristics are inscribed in a civil register.

Vital acts and events are the births, deaths, fetal deaths, marriages, and all such events that have something to do with an individual's entrance and departure from life together with the changes in civil status that may occur to a person during his lifetime. Recording of these events in the civil register is known as vital or civil registration and the resulting documents are called vital records.

Death is a permanent disappearance of evidence of life. A fetus with an intrauterine life of seven months or more and born alive at the time it was completely delivered from the maternal womb but died later shall be considered as death and shall be registered.