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Table 5.

International comparison of perinatal mortality (stillbirth and first week deaths according to WHO definitions) among planned home births starting labour at home

Study	No of births	Deaths per 1000 births (95% CI)
Present study, Australia 1985-90	7002	6.4 (4.6 to 8.3)
Western Australia 1981-87¹³	943	6.4 (2.4 to 13.9)^*
New Zealand 1973-93¹⁴	9776	3.0 (1.9 to 4.0)
Wormerveer, Netherlands 1969-83¹⁵	6625	2.3 (1.1 to 3.4)
Gelderland, Netherlands 1990-93¹⁶	1140	3.5 (0.9 to 8.9)
United Kingdom 1994¹⁷	4665	1.1 (0.1 to 2.0)
Northern Health Region, UK 1981-94¹⁸	1733	3.5 (1.3 to 7.5)
USA 1978-91¹⁹	11081	2.0 (1.2 to 2.9)

These data also include late neonatal deaths.