Table 1 Total number of deliveries and facilities by country, and the percentages of deliveries by mode and country
Vaginal Delivery | Caesarean section without indications | Caesarean section with indications | Total deliveries | Total facilities | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Spontaneous | Operative | Antepartum | Intrapartum | Antepartum | Intrapartum | |||
% | % | % | % | % | % | n | n | |
Africa | ||||||||
Algeria | 80.5 | 5.9 | 0.04 | 0.1 | 5.9 | 7.5 | 15,578 | 18 |
Angola | 97.7 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.02 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 6,322 | 20 |
D.R. Congo | 84.8 | 2.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 1.4 | 11.4 | 8,804 | 21 |
Kenya | 82.9 | 1.5 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 3.2 | 11.8 | 19,968 | 20 |
Niger | 91.5 | 3.2 | 0.02 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 4.8 | 8,275 | 11 |
Nigeria | 81.1 | 4.4 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 3.6 | 10.5 | 8,939 | 21 |
Uganda | 85.4 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 2.1 | 10.9 | 13,836 | 20 |
Americas | ||||||||
Argentina | 62.1 | 2.8 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 17.8 | 17.0 | 10,689 | 14 |
Brazil | 68.5 | 2.0 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 15.4 | 13.6 | 15,129 | 19 |
Cuba | 61.7 | 2.7 | 0.02 | 0.1 | 16.6 | 18.8 | 12,642 | 17 |
Ecuador | 59.2 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 7.8 | 31.8 | 12,414 | 18 |
Mexico | 60.4 | 1.9 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 15.8 | 21.8 | 20,883 | 21 |
Nicaragua | 69.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 7.7 | 22.8 | 5,636 | 8 |
Paraguay | 57.3 | 0.8 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 18.1 | 21.7 | 3,460 | 17 |
Peru | 65.4 | 0.6 | 0.01 | 0.0 | 13.2 | 20.8 | 16,040 | 17 |
Asia | ||||||||
Cambodia | 77.6 | 7.7 | 0.04 | 0.2 | 2.6 | 11.8 | 5,565 | 5 |
China | 52.6 | 1.2 | 9.3 | 2.3 | 19.7 | 14.9 | 14,541 | 21 |
India | 79.4 | 2.9 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 3.6 | 13.8 | 24,682 | 20 |
Japan | 74.1 | 6.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 13.9 | 5.9 | 3,300 | 10 |
Nepal | 76.0 | 3.8 | 0.04 | 0.1 | 6.2 | 14.0 | 8,489 | 8 |
Philippines | 78.4 | 2.8 | 0.04 | 0.1 | 8.0 | 10.3 | 13,295 | 6 |
Sri Lanka | 65.9 | 3.5 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 20.2 | 9.8 | 15,024 | 14 |
Thailand | 61.6 | 4.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 13.4 | 20.2 | 9,745 | 12 |
Vietnam | 62.2 | 2.2 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 4.3 | 30.2 | 13,309 | 15 |
Total | 71.7 | 2.6 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 9.4 | 15.4 | 286,565 | 373 |