Table 2. Number and proportion (%) of total live births that were policy related in the four monitoring cities from 2014 to 2017.
| Cities | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | |||||||
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | ||||
| Beijing | 3,542 | 3.1 | 7,056 | 9.5 | 23,530 | 21.2 | 28,783 | 30.2 | |||
| Wuhan | 1,090 | 1.0 | 5,718 | 5.2 | 24,822 | 19.0 | 31,953 | 25.1 | |||
| Shenzhen | 1,374 | 0.6 | 10,852 | 5.5 | 76,593 | 33.6 | 90,721 | 39.4 | |||
| Chengdu | 3,502 | 2.0 | 27,043 | 15.2 | 57,107 | 26.0 | 74,724 | 35.0 | |||
| All | 9,508 | 1.6 | 50,669 | 7.4 | 182,052 | 26.4 | 226,181 | 33.9 | |||