Mauritania Civil Registration

Offices to Contact
National Agency for the Register of Population and Securities (ANRPTS) Citizens’ Reception Centres (CAC)

Birth Records
Regarding the child
 * Name
 * Gender
 * Date of birth
 * Place of birth
 * Place of registration

Regarding the mother
 * Name
 * Date of birth or age
 * Place of birth
 * Occupation
 * Usual residence

Regarding the father
 * Name
 * Date of birth or age
 * Place of birth
 * Occupation
 * Place of usual residence

Marriage Records
– First name and surname, date and place of birth, nationality and domicile of the ‘Wely’ guardian and the guardian’s national identification number; – First name and surname, date and place of birth, occupation and domicile of the duly constituted representatives of the spouses and their national identification numbers – First and last names, addresses, nationalities and national Identification numbers of witnesses; – First and last names, domicile, nationalities of the father and mother of the spouses
 * Denomination of the act
 * Names of the spouses
 * Dates and places of their births
 * Occupations and domiciles of the spouses
 * Their national identification numbers

Death Records

 * Name
 * Gender
 * Date of birth or age
 * Place of birth
 * Occupation
 * Place of habitual residence
 * Marital status
 * Place of burial
 * National identification number
 * Name of the deceased’s spouse
 * Date of death
 * Place death
 * Date of registration
 * Place of registration
 * Cause of death
 * Certifier
 * Place of burial
 * Name of the declarant, Profession, Relationship to the deceased, Residence

Miscellaneous: Forenames and names of witnesses and their national identification numbers; Surnames, forenames, profession, residence and nationality of the father and mother of deceased; References to the extract from the register of deaths or judicial decision