Or Hawaii is still masking foreign births by claiming them as domestic.
Than why don’t their numbers reflect that?
1940
Hawaii live births - 9,414
1941
Hawaii live births - 10,116
1942
Hawaii live births - 10,422
1943
Hawaii live births - 11,831
1944
Hawaii live births - 12,494
1945
Hawaii live births - 12,305
1946
Hawaii live births - 12,808
1947
Hawaii live births - 14,592
1948
Hawaii live births - 14,463
1949
Hawaii live births - 14,150
1950
Hawaii live births - 14,054
1951
Hawaii live births - 14,446
1952
Hawaii live births - 15,576
1953
Hawaii live births - 16,108
1954
Hawaii live births - 16,202
1955
Hawaii live births - 16,319
1956
Hawaii live births - 17,106
1957
Hawaii live births - 17,060
1958
Hawaii live births - 16,708
1959
Hawaii live births - 17,100
1960
Hawaii live births - 17,202
1961
Hawaii live births - 17,578
1962
Hawaii live births - 17,982
And if we look again at your table but this time for Alaska, the live births are 7502 and to non-resident, 568. If we look at Table 2-1 from the 1961 Vital Records there is additional information. The total births is still 7502 but non-resident births is broken into intra-state residents (558) and out-of-state residents (10).
So for Alaska only 10 women made the trip from the lower 48 states up to Alaska to have their babies. Hawaii only had 20 such births.
Yes, DL the long distance from the mainland to the Hawaiian islands is why the non-resident births in Hawaii are so low.