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Table 1 Distribution of all births and hospital-based cesarean section rates according to the governorates for the year 2012

From: Rates and trends in cesarean sections between 2008 and 2012 in Iraq

Governorates

All births

Public hospitals

Private hospitals

No. of private hospitals

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

  1. CS cesarean section, NA data not available
  2. aThe distribution for the Iraqi Kurdistan Region is not included because the segregated data for the public/private hospitals was unavailable. The cesarean section rates for all hospital births were Erbil: 37.6%, Dohouk: 26.6%, Al-Sulaimaniya: 34.5%, Kurdistan: 33.8%, Centre/South: 34.9%, and total Iraq: 34.7%