In 2018, a total of 1,668,120 live births were recorded in the Philippines. This decreased by 1.9 percent from 1,700,618 total live births in 2017.Since 2008, the total number of registered live births seesawed until year 2012.

Civil registration in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) covers 6 provinces and 2 cities, one of which is highly urbanized. These are Abra, Apayao, Benguet, that includes Baguio City, Ifugao, Kalinga with 1 component city Tabuk, and Mt.…