Non-resident mothers in the Dominican Republic, who have given birth in Dominican Hospitals, and who have registered the babies in the Libro de Extranjeria in the Civil Registry offices, come from at least 36 countries, with the majority coming from Haiti.
Records from the Civil Registry show that between 2017 and 2018, there were 34,947 children registered of which 34,188 were Haitian. In 2018 alone, of the 19,227 registered foreign births, some 18,892 were Haitian.
The second highest number both in 2017 and 2018 were from Venezuela with 241 in 2017 and 334 in 2018. This is followed by the United States with 30 in 2017 and 22 in 2018; China, 11 in 2017 and 12 in 2018; Mexico, 6 in 2017 and 12 in 2018 and Spain with 7 in 2017 and 10 in 2018.
In 2018, foreign births from 4 to 9 per country were registered to women from Colombia, Chile, Germany, Argentina, Brazil, France, Holland and India. Between one and three births were registered to non-resident women from Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia, Canada, South Korea, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Great Britain, Guatemala, Guyana, Hungary, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Peru, and others.
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Listin Diario
23 January 2019
