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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Dec 19.
Published in final edited form as: Lancet. 2009 Oct 31;374(9707):2115–2122. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)61877-8

Table 5.

Selected rates of preterm labour or delivery (<37 weeks gestation), by country and year

Rate (%)
Finland (2007)* 5.7%
France (1998)37 6.27%
Sweden (2004)38 5·8%
USA (2008)39 10·4–11·5%
*

Hospital discharge data for Finland (2007) developed for this report by JE.