Table 2 Percentage of caesarean sections among all hospital deliveries by year and federal states
From: Regional variation in caesarean deliveries in Germany and its causes
GePaRD | Hospital statistics | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | |
All Births [n] | 100,160 | 99,195 | 95,486 | 682,767 | 664,597 | 652,642 |
Schleswig-Holstein | 29.0 | 28.2 | 30.4 | 24.9 | 27.2 | 30.3 |
Hamburg | 30.6 | 30.6 | 30.9 | 26.9 | 30.1 | 27.6 |
Lower Saxony | 29.6 | 30.0 | 30.2 | 27.0 | 28.1 | 28.7 |
Bremen | 27.8 | 26.4 | 26.3 | 28.8 | 26.1 | 29.5 |
North-Rhine Westphalia | 30.6 | 31.4 | 32.1 | 27.9 | 28.6 | 29.6 |
Hesse | 31.0 | 31.8 | 32.7 | 29.8 | 30.9 | 31.5 |
Rhineland-Palatinate | 31.9 | 31.5 | 32.1 | 30.8 | 29.1 | 30.4 |
Baden-Württemberg | 29.6 | 30.1 | 30.2 | 28.1 | 28.9 | 29.3 |
Bavaria | 28.8 | 29.2 | 30.6 | 27.6 | 28.5 | 30.4 |
Saarland | 33.2 | 31.4 | 34.4 | 33.6 | 32.1 | 33.2 |
Berlin | 23.0 | 22.4 | 23.8 | 20.7 | 21.9 | 24.1 |
Brandenburg | 22.4 | 23.3 | 25.0 | 20.6 | 21.3 | 23.6 |
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | 25.6 | 26.4 | 24.8 | 23.0 | 23.4 | 24.7 |
Saxony | 21.8 | 20.1 | 19.8 | 19.9 | 21.0 | 22.2 |
Saxony-Anhalt | 23.0 | 22.7 | 23.1 | 20.6 | 22.2 | 22.5 |
Thuringia | 22.7 | 21.0 | 23.7 | 24.7 | 23.2 | 23.9 |
Former West Germany* | 30.0 | 30.4 | 31.2 | 28.1 | 28.8 | 29.8 |
Former East Germany* ,+ | 22.8 | 22.2 | 22.9 | 21.2 | 21.9 | 23.3 |
Total* | 28.7 | 28.9 | 29.6 | 26.8 | 27.6 | 28.6 |