Table 2.
Percentage of caesarean sections among all hospital deliveries by year and federal states
| |
GePaRD |
Hospital statistics |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | |
|
All Births [n] |
100,160 |
99,195 |
95,486 |
682,767 |
664,597 |
652,642 |
| Schleswig-Holstein |
29.0 |
28.2 |
30.4 |
24.9 |
27.2 |
30.3 |
| Hamburg |
30.6 |
30.6 |
30.9 |
26.9 |
30.1 |
27.6 |
| Lower Saxony |
29.6 |
30.0 |
30.2 |
27.0 |
28.1 |
28.7 |
| Bremen |
27.8 |
26.4 |
26.3 |
28.8 |
26.1 |
29.5 |
| North-Rhine Westphalia |
30.6 |
31.4 |
32.1 |
27.9 |
28.6 |
29.6 |
| Hesse |
31.0 |
31.8 |
32.7 |
29.8 |
30.9 |
31.5 |
| Rhineland-Palatinate |
31.9 |
31.5 |
32.1 |
30.8 |
29.1 |
30.4 |
| Baden-Württemberg |
29.6 |
30.1 |
30.2 |
28.1 |
28.9 |
29.3 |
| Bavaria |
28.8 |
29.2 |
30.6 |
27.6 |
28.5 |
30.4 |
| Saarland |
33.2 |
31.4 |
34.4 |
33.6 |
32.1 |
33.2 |
| Berlin |
23.0 |
22.4 |
23.8 |
20.7 |
21.9 |
24.1 |
| Brandenburg |
22.4 |
23.3 |
25.0 |
20.6 |
21.3 |
23.6 |
| Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania |
25.6 |
26.4 |
24.8 |
23.0 |
23.4 |
24.7 |
| Saxony |
21.8 |
20.1 |
19.8 |
19.9 |
21.0 |
22.2 |
| Saxony-Anhalt |
23.0 |
22.7 |
23.1 |
20.6 |
22.2 |
22.5 |
| Thuringia |
22.7 |
21.0 |
23.7 |
24.7 |
23.2 |
23.9 |
|
Former West Germany* |
30.0 |
30.4 |
31.2 |
28.1 |
28.8 |
29.8 |
|
Former East Germany*,+ |
22.8 |
22.2 |
22.9 |
21.2 |
21.9 |
23.3 |
| Total* | 28.7 | 28.9 | 29.6 | 26.8 | 27.6 | 28.6 |
* Weighted estimate using crude birth rates per federal state.
+ including Berlin.