Table 1. Caesarean delivery rates and mean annual increases in such rates, by country and survey year, southern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, 1990–2011.
| Country | Survey period |
Annual increaseb
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| Before 1997 |
1997–2001 |
2002–2006 |
2007–2011 |
All women |
Women in two poorest quintiles |
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| Year | Ratea (%) | Year | Ratea (%) | Year | Ratea (%) | Year | Ratea (%) | % (95% CI) | % (95% CI) | ||
| Southern Asia | |||||||||||
| Bangladesh | – | – | 2000 | 2.37 | 2004 | 3.38 | 2007 | 7.52 | 1.19 (1.16–1.22) | 1.30 (1.19–1.42) | |
| India | 1992 | 2.40 | 1999 | 6.82 | 2006 | 8.37 | – | – | 1.09 (1.08–1.10) | 1.09 (1.07–1.11) | |
| Nepal | 1996 | 0.83 | 2001 | 0.82 | 2006 | 2.63 | 2011 | 4.59 | 1.15 (1.12–1.17) | 1.13 (1.05–1.21) | |
| Pakistan | 1991 | 2.30 | – | – | 2006 | 7.15 | – | – | 1.08 (1.06–1.10) | 1.11 (1.05–1.17) | |
| Western and central Africa | |||||||||||
| Benin | 1996 | 1.94 | 2001 | 3.20 | 2006 | 3.43 | – | – | 1.05 (1.03–1.07) | 1.03 (0.99–1.08) | |
| Burkina Faso | 1993 | 1.08 | 1999 | 1.06 | 2003 | 0.64 | 2010 | 1.81 | 1.04 (1.02–1.06) | 1.03 (0.98–1.09) | |
| Cameroon | 1991 | 1.87 | 1998 | 2.17 | 2004 | 1.94 | – | – | 1.00 (0.97–1.03) | 0.94 (0.87–1.01) | |
| Chad | – | – | 1997 | 0.38 | 2004 | 0.44 | – | – | 0.99 (0.91–1.06) | –c | |
| Côte d’Ivoire | 1994 | 0.42 | 1999 | 1.91 | 2005 | 4.66 | – | – | 1.18 (1.12–1.23) | 1.17 (1.09–1.26) | |
| Ghana | 1993 | 3.79 | 1998 | 3.69 | 2003 | 3.69 | 2008 | 6.46 | 1.04 (1.02–1.06) | 1.06 (1.01–1.10) | |
| Guinea | – | – | 1999 | 1.50 | 2005 | 1.66 | – | – | 1.01 (0.96–1.06) | 0.97 (0.84–1.09) | |
| Mali | 1996 | 0.30 | 2001 | 0.90 | 2006 | 0.91 | – | – | 1.07 (1.03–1.11) | 1.08 (0.99–1.17) | |
| Niger | – | – | 1998 | 0.50 | 2006 | 0.97 | – | – | 1.07 (1.02–1.12) | 1.11 (0.95–1.27) | |
| Nigeria | 1990 | 1.85 | – | – | 2003 | 1.66 | 2008 | 1.73 | 1.00 (0.98–1.01) | 0.94 (0.91–0.97) | |
| Senegal | – | – | – | – | 2005 | 2.87 | 2011 | 4.75 | 1.05 (1.01–1.09) | 1.11 (1.04–1.17) | |
| Eastern and southern Africa | |||||||||||
| Ethiopia | – | – | 2000 | 0.63 | 2005 | 0.97 | 2011 | 1.44 | 1.08 (1.05–1.11) | 1.10 (0.99–1.21) | |
| Kenya | 1993 | 4.31 | 1998 | 5.40 | 2003 | 3.93 | 2009 | 5.81 | 1.02 (1.00–1.03) | 1.00 (0.97–1.03) | |
| Lesotho | – | – | – | – | 2004 | 5.05 | 2009 | 6.54 | 1.06 (1.02–1.10) | 1.02 (0.95–1.09) | |
| Madagascar | – | – | 1997 | 0.47 | 2004 | 1.01 | 2009 | 1.42 | 1.07 (1.03–1.12) | 1.02 (0.91–1.13) | |
| Malawi | 1992 | 3.14 | 2000 | 2.71 | 2004 | 2.95 | 2010 | 4.53 | 1.03 (1.02–1.05) | 1.03 (1.01–1.05) | |
| Mozambique | – | – | 1997 | 1.96 | 2003 | 1.83 | – | – | 1.00 (0.93–1.07) | 0.85 (0.62–1.09) | |
| Rwanda | 1992 | 1.39 | 2000 | 2.09 | 2005 | 2.94 | 2010 | 6.94 | 1.11 (1.10–1.13) | 1.12 (1.10–1.15) | |
| Uganda | 1995 | 2.11 | 2000 | 2.52 | 2006 | 3.02 | 2011 | 5.22 | 1.06 (1.05–1.08) | 1.06 (1.03–1.09) | |
| United Republic of Tanzania | 1996 | 2.14 | 1999 | 2.83 | 2004 | 3.10 | 2010 | 4.25 | 1.05 (1.03–1.07) | 1.05 (1.01–1.08) | |
| Zambia | 1996 | 1.73 | – | – | 2002 | 1.97 | 2007 | 2.82 | 1.04 (1.02–1.07) | 1.07 (1.01–1.12) | |
| Zimbabwe | 1994 | 5.55 | 1999 | 6.79 | 2005 | 4.70 | 2010 | 4.44 | 0.98 (0.97–0.99) | 0.95 (0.92–0.98) | |
CI, confidence interval.
a Caesarean delivery rates are expressed as percentages of the deliveries that ended in a live birth, excluding all but the last born of the neonates delivered in each multiple birth. These rates take into account sampling weights.
b The 95% CIs take into account sampling clusters, strata and sampling weights.
c In the Demographic and Health Surveys that have been conducted in Chad, only two caesarean deliveries have ever been recorded among women in the lowest two percentiles for wealth, both of them in 1992.