Table 1.

Congenital Malformations Surveillance Data from One of Basra's Three Main Maternal and Children's Hospitals, Iraq 1990 – 2001 [43, 44] (Number and Rate of All Malformations Combined)

Year	No. of Births	No. of congenital malformations	Congenital malformation
			incidence rate/1000 births
1990	12,161	37	3.04
1991	9,845	28	2.84
1992	11,800	23	1.95
1993	12,416	28	1.31
1994	12,250	36	2.93
1995	10,576	46	4.35
1996	10,470	48	4.56
1997	13,653	32	2.34
1998	10,186	79	7.76
1999	13,905	136	9.78
2000	12,560	221	17.6
2001	11,445	254	22.19