Birth Registration is important for:-

• Personal identity (right to be given a name).
• Nationality
• Inheritance/Ownership rights/
• Data collected is vital for government to plan for basic government services.
• Population statistics.
• Updating election common rolls.
• Legal purposes.
• School enrolment.
• Child protection/juvenile cases.
• Passport
• Claiming benefits.
• To form customary land groups (ILGs), etc.