Dar es Salaam. Tanzania faces a prolonged delay in achieving universal birth registration, with the Controller and Auditor General (CAG) warning that full coverage on the Mainland may not be realized until 2051, unless urgent interventions are implemented.
In the Annual General Report on Performance Audit released on April 16, 2025, the CAG revealed that as of December 2024, only 29 percent of the population in Mainland Tanzania had been registered and issued with birth certificates a figure that presents significant challenges to national planning and access to essential services.
