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Number of babies born to foreign mothers now 15 percent in Spain
By h.b.
Jun 16, 2006 - 5:15 PM

The number of babies born to foreign parents in Spain has now reached 15% of the total.

The average number of children per couple in Spain last year was 1.34, compared to 1.33 the previous year, according to provisional data from the National Statistic Institute INE. Last year saw 465,616 births in Spain, of which nearly 70,000 were to a foreign mother.

Over the year there was a reduction in the total number of marriages, at 209,125, despite 1,275 gay marriages. In nearly 30,000 of the marriages one or more of the partners was a foreigner.