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Birth certificate issuance dips 31pc on booklets shortage
Residents of Mombasa County crowd the registration of persons office at Bima Towers to obtain birth certificates as the ministry’s deadline approaches, in this photo taken on February 20, 2018.
The number of birth certificates issued to Kenyans last year dropped 30.8 percent to 1.35 million on the back of inadequate supply of printing booklets, dampening efforts by hundreds of thousands of applicants to obtain the crucial document.
New data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) shows that during the period, issuances were 601,562 less than the 1.95 million certificates handed to citizens in 2023.
