A scandal of invisibility: making everyone count by counting everyone (Series 1st of 4)

Setel, Philip W; Macfarlane, Sarah B.; Szreter, Simon; Mikkelsen, Lene; Jha, Prabhat; Stout, Susan; AbouZahr, Carla; Hull, Terence; Bawah, Ayaga A; Cleland, John; Coullare, Francesca; Hill, Kenneth; Notzon, Francis C; Lopez, Alan D.; Rao, Chalapati; Tangcharoensathien, Viroj; Mahapatra, Prasanta; Shibuya, Kenji; Anderson, Robert N

A scandal of invisibility: making everyone count by counting everyone (Series 1st of 4)

Date

2007

Authors

Setel, Philip W

Macfarlane, Sarah B.

Szreter, Simon

Mikkelsen, Lene

Jha, Prabhat

Stout, Susan

AbouZahr, Carla

Hull, Terence

Bawah, Ayaga A

Cleland, John

Publisher

Lancet Publishing Group

Abstract

Most people in Africa and Asia are born and die without leaving a trace in any legal record or official statistic. Absence of reliable data for births, deaths, and causes of death are at the root of this scandal of invisibility, which renders most of the