Here is a uncle Sam shocker for you @ ld. Shonee when you say n I quote "do birth certificate expire..."
1. Florida (in USA) birth certificates do not expire. However, the U.S. Passport Office requires that if you use a birth certificate as your "primary proof of citizenship," it must be a certified birth certificate with a seal and signature. It also must have been originally filed with the state's Office of Vital Statistics within one year of your birth !. And suppose you are now in your 60’s and apply with it for fresh Passport then since you were born some 60 years back, there at that time there may have been a significant delay in filing your birth certificate when you were born, then the presently the Passport Office in Florida will reject your Passport application and endorse the application with a stamp "expired birth certificate."
In that event, you should visit https://travel.state.gov/passport There you can review a lengthy list of alternative hoops through which the U.S. Department of State will require you to jump in lieu of presenting a qualifying passport with re-newed Birth Certificate instead of keep submitting a "expired" birth certificate since you were born some 60 years back per se and at that time local authorities were issuing plain register filed entries and a receipt issued to you of your grand BIRTH into Uncle Sam land of opportunities!
2. Now in Mussorie State they do not accept Birth Certificates issued before Jan 1, 2005 for any Govt. purposes such as issue of Social Security Card, Passport Issuance, Drivers License even applying for some skilled Jobs they insist post Jan 1, 2005 issued Birth certificates though you may have been born prior to 2005 !!!!. There for a U.S. Birth Certificate - certified with an embossed, stamped or raised seal issued by a state or local government is the acceptable Birth Certificate paper and if any other Birth Certificate that you have and the moment you submit it they will tell you in writing that it is "expired". (mind it here in this State even Hospital - issued birth certificates are not acceptable and the moment you submit one it will be stamped as “expired birth certificate”)
3. Take illustration form Illinois State where "officially" a Birth certificate "expires" with “death of a person” and for same refer to their State Laws info. available in public domain on their official State gov. website which states that the moment a person is put in the hole his near onece are required/supposed to get cancellation of upper gaya hua person ka birth certificate with authorities failing which some fine is also there after limitation period!
4. I can also give you eg. from EU countries too on "expired birth certificate" told by Authorities there when applied for and I suffered in one such personal incidence in Berlin when I applied for Avis Eurocar renting to travel to Kraków (via Wrocław) into Poland and Authorities in Berlin said my India born Birth certificate is "expired" thus they will not issue me a overland pass to enter into Poland and I have to press Blue Dart services to demand a express 24 hrs. airlift of a duplicate one from Pune Municipality since Pune Municipality issues "embossed" with blue seal Birth certificates and buggers in Berlin wanted to see “that embossed seal” to issue me 9 days self drive car transit pass !
So generic saying "do birth certificate expire......" is not right they do "expire" per se in some parts of world (read as so called Developed world and mind it we are lucky to be living and breathing in a world referred to as 'developing world - i.e. Indya.....")