DEFINITION
Total for all ages and sexes. Database compiled January 2004. Total of figures for:
- Birth injury to scalp
- Cephalhaematoma due to birth injury
- Chignon due to birth injury
- Epicranial subaponeurotic haemorrhage due to birth injury
- Bru Per capita figures expressed per 1 million population.
| Rank |
Countries
|
Amount
(top to bottom)
|
| #1 | Bahamas, The: | 3.31356 deaths per 1 million peo | |
| #2 | Kyrgyzstan: | 0.582977 deaths per 1 million peo | |
| #3 | Latvia: | 0.436681 deaths per 1 million peo | |
| #4 | Nicaragua: | 0.365965 deaths per 1 million peo | |
| #5 | Georgia: | 0.213812 deaths per 1 million peo | |
| #6 | Finland: | 0.191461 deaths per 1 million peo | |
| #7 | Slovakia: | 0.184128 deaths per 1 million peo | |
| #8 | Romania: | 0.179131 deaths per 1 million peo | |
| #9 | Venezuela: | 0.118227 deaths per 1 million peo | |
| #10 | Dominican Republic: | 0.110497 deaths per 1 million peo | |
| #11 | Czech Republic: | 0.0976467 deaths per 1 million peo | |
| #12 | Peru: | 0.0716178 deaths per 1 million peo | |
| #13 | Chile: | 0.0625743 deaths per 1 million peo | |
| #14 | Japan: | 0.031393 deaths per 1 million peo | |
| #15 | Argentina: | 0.0252921 deaths per 1 million peo | |
| #16 | Korea, South: | 0.0205588 deaths per 1 million peo | |
| #17 | Mexico: | 0.0188319 deaths per 1 million peo | |
| #18 | Brazil: | 0.0161192 deaths per 1 million peo | |
| #19 | Germany: | 0.0121314 deaths per 1 million peo | |
| |
Weighted average: |
0.3 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
DEFINITION: Total for all ages and sexes. Database compiled January 2004. Total of figures for:
- Birth injury to scalp
- Cephalhaematoma due to birth injury
- Chignon due to birth injury
- Epicranial subaponeurotic haemorrhage due to birth injury
- Bru Per capita figures expressed per 1 million population.