OpenCRVS

OpenCRVS is a free, open-source digital system purpose-built for civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS). It helps governments register life events — births, deaths, marriages and others — and produce the reliable vital statistics that underpin planning, legal identity and public services.

Unlike a generic database or a repurposed health or identity system, OpenCRVS is designed around civil registration itself and around the realities of delivering it: it works on low-cost devices, supports low-connectivity and offline working, and is built to reach every person, including the hardest to register.

A digital public good. OpenCRVS is openly licensed and standards-based, designed to be adopted, configured and run by governments as part of their national Digital Public Infrastructure.

What makes OpenCRVS different

• Purpose-built for CRVS — modelled on civil registration processes, roles and legal requirements, not adapted from another domain.

• Configurable — each country defines its own events, forms, business rules, user roles, certificates and languages, without changing the core software.

• Built for real conditions — mobile-friendly, usable on modest hardware, and resilient to intermittent connectivity.

• Interoperable — integrates with identity, health, statistics and social-protection systems through open standards.

• Inclusive by design — focused on universal registration and on removing barriers for under-served populations.