The current status of vital staistics and civil registration systems in Zimbabwe

Abstract

The inception of both vital civil registration system and vital statistics is synony mous with the arrival of white colonial settlers on the land. Their arrival saw the introduction of formal enactments to provide and regulate processes connected with vital registration and statistics. The indigenous natives must of course have had their own laws and customs but these would not have been concerned with such issues as statistics and population registration which are scientific in their own right. Since the colonial era, each successive government had enacted laws that accorded with its various interests in the land.