Table 5.

Stillbirth Equity Ratios (SER) for seven countries with available data, ordered by SER

Abbreviations: MELAA Middle Eastern, Latin American and African, SBR Stillbirth rate, SER Stillbirth equity ratio

^aNational stillbirth rates used; see Additional file 3 for definitions

^bData from Spain may be inaccurate due to data quality issues, such as missing data and underreporting. In the case of the Spanish 2019 dataset (National Institute of Statistics, fetal deaths), gestational age data was missing for 12% of cases. Based on a previously conducted analysis of the 2015 dataset, 84% of cases with missing data on gestational age were replaced with a gestational age ≥ 28 weeks