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
Concerning the Spouses:
 * Denomination of the act
 * Names
 * Dates and places of their births
 * Occupations and domiciles
 * National identification numbers

Concerning the 'Wely' Guardian:
 * Name
 * Date and place of birth
 * Nationality
 * Domicile
 * National identification number

Concerning the duly constituted representatives of the spouses:
 * Name
 * Date and place of birth
 * Occupation
 * Domicile
 * National identification numbers

Concerning the Witnesses:
 * Names
 * Addresses
 * Nationalities
 * National Identification numbers

Concerning the Father and Mother of the Spouses:
 * Names
 * Domicile
 * Nationalities

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