Datasource:
Vital statistics
Period:
January 2025 to December 2025.
Birth statistics
The system shows 356,838 births that occurred and registered in 2025. The comparison of registered births with estimated live births shows 2.6 percentage points increase in birth registration completeness rate at national level, from 90.3% in 2024 to 92.9% in 2025. On the other side, the proportion of births registered within 30 days remained 99.1%, the same in 2025 as in 2024.
Births statistics show minor changes in fertility indicators where Crude Birth Rate (CBR) decreased to 27.2‰ from 27.4‰ in 2024, the General Fertility decreased to 103.0‰ from 103.7‰ in 2024 and total fertility rate (TFR) decreased to 3.5 from 3.6 in 2024.
Death statistics
The findings show a total of 39,355 deaths occurred and registered in 2025, of which 55.9% occurred outside health facilities (in communities). The comparison of registered deaths with expected deaths gives 50.5% death registration completeness rate in 2025, highlighting 4.4 percentage points increase when compared to 46.1% obtained in 2024. Mortality statistics show a high number of registered deaths among males compared to females with a sex ratio of 127.4 registered males per 100 females.
Causes of death
The CRVS system collects information on causes of death occurring at health facilities and outside health facilities. Community causes of death are collected through Verbal Autopsy while at health facilities, cause of death information is provided by medical doctors who certify death by filling a standard Medical Certificate of Cause of Death (MCCoD).
The findings show improvement in the quality of cause of death certified by health facilities, from 64.7% in 2024 to 82.3% in 2025, while in community, the quality remained slightly stable (84.0%).
The results also show that in both health facilities and in community, non-communicable diseases group is the most represented category, killing 49.5% and 58.8% respectively. The proportion of deaths due to external causes or injuries is high among deaths occurring in community (14.3%) compared to deaths occurring in health facilities (10.5%), while communicable diseases are more frequent among deaths occurring in health facilities (40%) compared to deaths occurring in community (26.9%).
Marriage statistics
Marriage statistics are based on legal marriages registered in 2025 where the data show a slight decrease from 52,878 marriages registered in 2024 to 50,256 marriages registered in 2025. Among males, marriages are more frequent among those aged 25-29 while among females, they are more frequent among those aged 21-24.
Divorce statistics
Divorce statistics are based on divorces registered into the NCI_CRVS system in 2025. In total, 4,479 divorce cases were registered, of which 2,629 were granted by courts in 2025. The high number of divorces was observed Kigali City (1,119) followed by the Eastern Province (1,011) while the low number was observed in the Northern Province (529).