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. 2017 Sep 7;17:295. doi: 10.1186/s12884-017-1479-1

Table 3.

Institutional stillbirth and pre-discharge early neonatal mortality rates (23 countries)

Region, country and year of data collection Institu-tional deliveries Ante-partum SBs Intra-partum SBs Unspe-cified SBs Total SBs SB rate per 1000 deliveries pNDs pND rate per 1000 live births SB:pND ratio
LAC
 Guyana 2010 12,803 70 67 89 226 17.7 65 5.2 3.5
 Nicaragua 2006 94,136 NR NR NR 1210 12.9 889 9.6 1.4
Western Africa
 Gambia 2012 51,518 1023 944 66 2033 39.5 433 8.8 4.7
 Ghana 2010 434,508 3989 4685 1223 9897 22.8 2201 5.2 4.5
 Guinea 2011 141,724 1944 1457 3639 6040 42.6 242 1.8 25.0
 Niger 2010 152,415 1171 4105 1072 6348 41.6 545 3.7 11.6
 Senegal 2013 237,494 3761 3345 2078 9184 38.7 1439 6.3 6.4
 Togo 2012 133,119 974 1728 1150 3852 28.9 634 4.9 6.1
Eastern Africa
 Eritrea 2008 25,000 NR NR NR 933 37.3 185 7.7 5.0
 Ethiopia 2008–9 174,561 NR NR NR 7366 42.2 522 3.1 14.1
 Madagascar 2009 118,774 NR NR NR 13,832 116.5 527 5.0 26.2
 Malawi 2014 476,272 3632 4403 NR 8035 16.9 5028 10.7 1.6
 Mozambique 2012a 647,944 828 3440 8200 12,468 19.2 1380 2.2 9.0
 Rwanda 2007a 207,738 17,456 5618 NR 23,074 11.1 9432 5.1 2.4
 South Sudan 2013 52,842 208 541 373 1122 21.2 948 18.3 1.2
 Zambia 2014–15 475,646 NR NR NR 11,233 23.6 1980 4.3 5.7
Central Africa
 Chad 2011 49,202 274 814 NR 2155 43.8 239 5.1 9.0
 Congo 2012 85,038 657 856 219 1732 20.4 264 3.2 6.6
 Dem Rep Congo 2011 156,546 NR NR NR 5949 38.0 1271 8.4 4.7
Asia
 Afghanistan 2009 192,627 NR NR NR 4177 21.7 1422 7.5 2.9
 Bangladesh 2012 253,728 NR NR NR 8119 32.0 5158 21.0 1.6
 Cambodia 2014 119,931 92 715 NR 807 6.7 479 4.0 1.7
 Mongolia 2009 30,131 NR NR NR 175 5.8 242 8.1 0.7

NR not reported, SB stillbirth, pND pre-discharge early neonatal death, dying before discharge or within the first 24 h, whichever came first

aMozambique and Rwanda adjusted to reflect 12 months of information