Table 1. Caesarean section rates in 150 countries categorised according to United Nations geographical grouping in 2014^a.

Region/subregionb	Births by cesarean section (%)	Range (minimum to maximum) (%)	Coverage of estimates (%)
Africa	7.3	1.4–51.8	92.8
Eastern Africa	3.9	1.5–9.6	96.3
Middle Africa	5.8	3.8–10.0	83.2
Northern Africa	27.8	6.6–51.8	97.4
Southern Africac	-	-	-
Western Africa	3.0	1.4–11.4	100
Asia	19.2	1.7–47.5	97.8
Eastern Asia	34.8	12.5–36.6	100
South-central Asia	11.4	3.6–47.9	100
South-eastern Asia	14.8	1.7–32.0	91.4
Western Asia	26.8	4.8–47.5	87.4
Europe	25.0	13.9–38.1	98.6
Eastern Europe	23.7	15.8–36.3	100
Northern Europe	22.4	14.7–26.6	100
Southern Europe	30.7	13.9–38.1	92.7
Western Europe	24.5	15.6–32.2	100
Latin America and the Caribbean	40.5	5.5–55.6	93.7
Caribbean	27.5	5.5–53.4	81.8
Central America	38.2	16.3–45.2	100
Southern America	42.9	13.3–55.6	91.7
Northern America	32.3	27.1–32.8	100
Oceania	31.1	6.2–33.4	62.3
Australia/New Zealand	32.3	32.4–33.4	100
World totalb	18.6	1.4–56.4	96.1
Least developed regions	6.0	1.4–41.1	91.8
Less developed regions	20.9	1.7–56.4	96.9
More developed regions	27.2	13.9–38.1	99.2

^a If the data in 2014 was not available, the latest data available from 2005 was used instead.

^b Countries categorized according to the UN geographical grouping. Number of live births in each country in 2010 was used as a weight to calculate the regional coverage.

^c Estimates for subregions with a coverage less than 60% are not calculated. Coverage for Southern Africa is 11.7%.