In the Vitebsk region, the highest birth rate growth in the first quarter was recorded in the Sharkovshchyna district

May 3, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. In the Sharkovshchina district of the Vitebsk region, the birth rate in the first quarter increased by 73.3% compared to the same period last year, with 52 babies born, the labor, employment and social protection committee of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee informed a BELTA correspondent. It is noteworthy that it was in this district of the region that the highest birth rate growth was recorded for 2010 (171 babies were born, or 112.5%). The only district that managed to come closest to the leader of this reporting quarter was Miory, with 78 children, or 144.4% compared to January-March 2010. A positive trend was also demonstrated by Beshenkovichi (49, or 104.3%), Lepel (92, or 124.3%), Polotsk (60, or 125%), Rossono (26, or 118.2%), Ushachi (45, or 118.4%), Shumilino (74, or 129.8%), and Senno (59, or 101.7%) districts. 67 newborns, or 100% compared to January-March of last year, were registered in the Braslav district. The lowest position in the birth rate ranking of the Vitebsk region for the first quarter belongs to the Liozno district, where only 31 babies were born, which is 67.4% compared to the same period in 2010. A birth rate of less than 80% compared to January-March of last year was recorded in Dokshitsy (56, or 72.7%) and Postavy (74, or 77.9%) districts. Cities of regional subordination, as well as Vitebsk, Verkhnedvinsk, Glubokoe, Gorodok, Orsha, Tolochin, and Chashniki districts, where the birth rate was from 80% to 100%, also failed to reach last year's level. In total, in the first three months of this year, 2967 children were born in the Vitebsk region, which is 96.3% compared to the same level in 2010. 5297 people died during the reporting period, or 99.3% respectively. About 1.8 thousand marriages were registered (119.6%), and 1.3 thousand divorces (113%). -0-