110,000 children registered through health-interoperable birth-registration systems linked with NADRA.
Source
UNICEF — https://www.unicef.org/pakistan/reports/unicef-pakistan-annual-report-2025. Verified in source set / retroactive normalization pending.
What it proves
Digital public infrastructure can connect civil registration with service delivery.
How to deploy: Use 110,000 children registered through health-interoperable birth-registration systems linked with NADRA. (110,000 children registered through health-interoperable birth-registration systems linked with NADRA., 2025) to support the claim that Digital public infrastructure can connect civil registration with service delivery.
What it does not prove: 110,000 is throughput of one interoperable registration channel, not national birth-registration coverage, and children registered this way are a small share of any year's births. Registration confers legal identity, which is a precondition for schooling, transfers and health entitlements — it is not evidence that any of those services subsequently arrived.
Memory hook: 110,000 registered → legal identity, the entry ticket to every later entitlement
Rebuts the claim: "Civil registration is administrative housekeeping, separate from poverty policy" — an unregistered child cannot be targeted by BISP, enrolled, or counted in the denominators that drive budgets.