TWENTY percent of the babies born in the Balearic Islands in 2004 have foreign mothers, a proportion which has increased by 2.3 percent with respect to 2003. These statistics were provided in the annual 2004 report by Ib-Salut and the Ministry for Health and Consumer Affairs, which states that in 2004 there were 10'655 births on the islands, and of this total 8'524 babies had a Spanish mother and 2.131 had a foreign mother. These were mostly mothers from Central and South America (905), followed by mothers from Canada, Australia, America and Europe (476).
One in five babies born here has foreign mother