Birthdays in India: what the official records show

Published by Birthday Traffic · September 15, 2026 · Sources and method

• 25,473,389registered births, 2024Civil Registration System, national
• +114%registrations since 1991registration
• Maybusiest reported month, Kerala 20249.5% of the year's reported births
• Year and stategrain of the official tablebirths by calendar date sit outside it

India's Civil Registration System recorded 25,473,389 registered live births in 2024. The report consulted here publishes those totals by year and by state. This page shows that verified national registration series, and one state's official table of births by month, with the labelling ambiguity in that table stated plainly.

What the Indian records hold

The Civil Registration System annual report, published by the Office of the Registrar General of India, reports registered births by year and by state. A 366-date Indian ranking needs a table of births by calendar date, and this site publishes date rankings from such tables alone.

Registration counts are counts of registered events. The report's own totals are of registered events, which depend on registration completeness and on when a family registers, and the national table excludes some states in some years.

What the report itself says about comparing these years

The national table has its own notes, and they matter more than the trend line. They are reproduced here:

• The 2024 total covers every state at national level, but the 1991–2012 years each drop one or more states: Assam 1991–1994, Meghalaya 1991–1994, A&N Islands 1992, Bihar 1997–1999, Sikkim 1996–2000, Uttarakhand 2000 and 2002–2003, Assam, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand in 2001, Tripura 2005 and 2007–2009, and Jammu & Kashmir 2012.
• The 2016 national figure excludes Manipur and Meghalaya entirely, which are listed as unavailable in the state table for that year.
• Goa's 2024 figure excludes births registered more than one year after they occurred; the other states count every registration.
• Delhi's 2024 figure counts only births that both occurred and were registered in 2024.
• Jammu & Kashmir's 2015–2019 rows are the erstwhile state including Ladakh, which is reported separately from 2020, so those two rows break at the boundary change.

A series assembled under changing coverage is a record of registration, and the differences above are inside any small year-on-year move. The report states the exclusions.

Registered births in 2024 are 113.9% above the 1991 figure. That is a change in registered events. The series counts registrations, the states included change between years, and the report leaves registration completeness unmeasured, so the difference is shown as registrations.

What one state does publish: Kerala, by month

Kerala's Department of Economics and Statistics publishes an Annual Vital Statistics Report with a table of live births by sex and month. That is the finest official time breakdown found for any part of India in this pass, at the month level.

The 2024 report's twelve months sum to 344,766, which is exactly the report's annual registration total. The labelling of those twelve values is ambiguous in the document itself: Table B-4 heads them as month of occurrence, while the narrative table earlier in the same report presents the identical twelve values as month-wise registration. The report also shows 6,063 births (1.7586% of the total) registered more than a year after they occurred, so the set includes births from earlier years either way.

The national report's own state table gives Kerala 344,766 registered births for 2024, the same number the state report prints, so the two independent documents agree on the state total. That agreement is a check on the total.

Because of that, the share of reported registered births is published below, as printed.

By raw reported count, May is the largest month at 9.49% and December the smallest at 7.68%. Months differ in length, so part of any gap between a 31-day and a 28-day month is the calendar. That difference is left visible, because the rows are registrations.

Monsoon timing, festival calendars, marriage seasons and registration behaviour have all been proposed for Indian seasonality in the literature.

What was checked

• The Kerala 2024 report was read directly. Summing the twelve months reproduces the printed state total exactly, and that total is the report's annual registration total, which is why the months are shown as shares of reported registrations.
• The national Civil Registration System report 2024 was read in full, and the series above is Statement 9 read value by value. The document, 174 pages, is published at two official addresses that serve an identical file with an identical checksum.
• Kerala's state total in the national report's Statement 10 equals the total printed in the state's own report, so two independent documents agree on that number.

What visitors to this site should take from it

A large share of recent visitors here reach the site from India. Country comes from the connection; a birth country is what a visitor chooses to enter. The rarity result on the homepage is United States only, and says so.

The countries with verified daily records are compared in the matched five-country study, and Malaysia is another country whose statistics office publishes a complete daily series.

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