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Table 1 Detailed information about the rates of different deliveries at the 39 hospitals across China

From: Caesarean deliveries in China

Regions

Cesarean delivery

Overall rates of CS (%)

Vaginal Delivery

Number of deliveries (n)

Number of hospitals (n)

With indications (%)

Without indications (%)

Spontaneous (%)

Operative (%)a

Tertiary hospitals

29153 (36.6)

15382 (19.3)

44535 (55.9)

33896 (42.6)

1200 (1.5)

79631

20

secondary hospitals

8457 (26.0)

8092 (24.9)

16549 (50.9)

15838 (48.7)

120 (0.4)

32507

19

Total

37610 (33.5)

23474 (20.9)

61084 (54.5)

49734 (44.4)

1320 (1.2)

112138

39

  1. aOperative vaginal delivery includes forceps delivery, vacuum extraction delivery and breech extraction