It ought to be noted that children under 5 years of age make up 15 percent of the unregistered RAE population. This finding clearly shows that children must be registered immediately after they are born, regardless of whether their parents have personal documents. In 2016, Serbia introduced the project Bebo, dobro došla na svet,13 (‘Baby, welcome to the world’), aimed at streamlining birth registration by automatically registering all children born in healthcare institutions in the civil register of births. This service also greatly facilitates children’s and parents’ access to other rights and services, such as registration of permanent residence, registration for health insurance, application for childcare benefits, and the like. Parents are able to fulifl all administrative requirements completely free of charge online, instead of the previous practice of visiting multiple administrative offices and paying various fees. Unfortunately, when a mother does not have an identity card, or a birth registration certificate, neither she nor the child can use this online service. This means that the child’s birth cannot be registered, and it cannot be registered for health insurance, whereas the parents remain ineligible for childcare allowance. There are now fewer RAE individuals at risk of statelessness without birth registration than in 2015. The percentage is now 0.45 percent as opposed to 1 percent in 2015. Cross-referencing these figures with the respondents’ home regions shows that RAE individuals living in Southern and South-Eastern Serbia and in Belgrade are more likely to lack birth registration. Of the 21 households in the sample with unregistered children, nearly one-half, or 10, live in Southern and SouthEastern Serbia, whilst another five reside in Belgrade. Conversely, only two households in Western Serbia and Šumadija have members without birth registration. Purpose-made settlements, huts, and container housing units are home to larger number of persons without birth registration. Moreover, 0.97 percent of RAE individuals without birth registration live in slums. The rate for old inner-city areas (partajas) is 0.47 (closest to the average), and for poverty-afflicted villages it is slightly lower than the average at 0.34 percent. Newer urban or suburban areas show a rate of 0.11 percent. Compared to the 2015 findings, slums, which then housed the most persons without birth registration, have now been supplanted at the top of the list by purpose-made settlements, huts, and container housing. 13 See ite.gov.rs/tekst/81/bebo-dobro-dosla-na-svet.php. PERSONS AT RISK OF STATELESSNESS IN SERBIA OVERVIEW OF CURRENT SITUATION AND THE WAY FORWARD 23