Figure 2

Proportions of vaginal deliveries (both spontaneous and instrumental), emergency, intrapartum and elective caesarean sections in each study hospital and according to the type of hospital (district hospitals, regional hospitals and hospitals in the capital). The proportions of elective, emergency and intrapartum caesarean sections varied between hospitals, ranging from 0–8.3% (median: 1.3%), 0–12% (1.9%), and 4.5–38.7% (14.4%) of all deliveries, respectively.