Fig. 1

Trend analysis of cesarean section deliveries in Nepal, 1996–2016. Data are the rate of cesarean section deliveries in each NDHS survey waves where blue line with close diamonds represents rate of population-based CS deliveries, green line with cross indicates rate of institutional-based CS deliveries, orange line with close triangles indicates the rate of CS deliveries in private sectors and black line with close circles indicates the rate of CS deliveries in public sectors. p-value was obtained from logistic regression analysis with the year as a linear term and adjusted for all covariates under analysis