From: Rates and trends in cesarean sections between 2008 and 2012 in Iraq
Governorates | All births | Public hospitals | Private hospitals | No. of private hospitals | |||
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No. of births | CS rate % | No. of births (%) | CS rate %a | No. of births (%) | CS rate %a | ||
Baghdad | 254,862 | 38.9 | 136,531 (53.6) | 38.8 | 60,679 (23.8) | 76.2 | 36 |
Basrah | 102,386 | 22.9 | 83,011 (81.1) | 26.2 | 4798 (4.7) | 35.0 | 4 |
Nineveh | 147,917 | 15.2 | 97,951 (66.2) | 22.3 | 680 (0.5) | 100.0 | 3 |
Maysan | 42,566 | 9.5 | 23,238 (54.6) | 17.4 | 0 (0.0) | - | 0 |
Al-Diwaniya | 41,761 | 35.1 | 26,955 (64.5) | 35.7 | 5100 (12.2) | 98.6 | 3 |
Diyala | 61,400 | 20.1 | 33,087 (53.9) | 32.1 | 1725 (2.8) | 100.0 | 3 |
Al-Anbar | 58,096 | 24.0 | 34,908 (60.1) | 33.8 | 3710 (6.4) | 57.5 | 2 |
Babylon | 64,563 | 21.0 | 44,249 (68.5) | 26.9 | 1696 (2.6) | 100.0 | 4 |
Kerbala | 44,693 | 26.7 | 30,770 (68.8) | 24.4 | 4925 (11.0) | 89.4 | 2 |
Kirkuk | 55,078 | 19.0 | 32,940 (59.8) | 28.0 | 1262 (2.3) | 98.4 | 2 |
Wasit | 58,527 | 18.5 | 31,461 (53.8) | 34.4 | 0 (0.0) | - | 0 |
Thi-Qar | 66,034 | 16.6 | 38,898 (58.9) | 23.3 | 1905 (2.9) | 99.8 | 2 |
Al-Muthanna | 35,461 | 17.1 | 25,960 (73.2) | 23.4 | 0 (0.0) | - | 0 |
Salah Al-Deen | 55,202 | 14.0 | 21,767 (39.4) | 26.1 | 2274 (4.1) | 88.9 | 2 |
Al-Najaf | 50,762 | 30.1 | 40,029 (78.9) | 31.1 | 3114 (6.1) | 91.2 | 3 |
Centre/South | 1,139,308 | 24.3 | 701,755 (61.6) | 29.3 | 91,868 (8.1) | 77.9 | 66 |
Erbil | 55,864 | 31.4 | 37,666 (67.4) | NA | 9012 (16.1) | NA | 13 |
Dohouk | 52,569 | 15.9 | 27,909 (53.1) | NA | 5117 (9.7) | NA | 3 |
Al-Sulaimaniya | 52,362 | 27.5 | 35,626 (68.0) | NA | 6118 (11.7) | NA | 14 |
Kurdistan | 160,795 | 25.4 | 101,201 (62.9) | - | 20,247 (12.6) | - | 30 |
Total Iraq | 1,300,103 | 24.4 | 802,956 (61.8) | - | 112,115 (8.6) | - | 96 |