German kids with foreign parents rises
19 September 2003
WIESBADEN - Nearly 22 percent of all babies born in Germany in 2001 had at least one foreign parent, continuing a slow but steady rise in babies of foreign parentage, officials said Friday.
The Federal Statistics Office in Wiesbaden said that of 734,500 babies born in Germany in 2001 - the last full year on which data are available - 83,000 or 11.3 percent had two foreign parents. A further 78,000 babies or 10.6 percent had one foreign parent.
The office said that babies born to Turkish parents numbered 30,100, making up the largest group of those with two foreign parents. Next came 5,800 babies from parents of Yugoslav background and 4,200 babies with Italian parents, the office said.
The office said that compared with 1991, the number of babies with at least one foreign parent in 2001 was up by 6 percent.
At the same time, there has been a steady decline of babies with two German parents: from 700,609 in 1991 to 573,611 in 2001, the office said.
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