According to the Ministry of Security and Justice, 108 children were adopted last year from earthquake-stricken Haiti. These children have come to the Netherlands under an accelerated procedure. Statistics Netherlands has counted no more than 58 children from Haiti for 2010. The figure published by Statistics Netherlands is lower than the figure published by the Ministry of Security and Justice, because part of the children adopted from Haiti had not been entered into the municipal population registers (GBA) on 1 January 2011. The GBA is the source for the adoption statistics published by Statistics Netherlands.
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