Health > Births and maternity Stats: compare key data on Nauru & Netherlands
Definitions
- Abortion > When abortion is legal > Economic or social reasons: Abortion laws by grounds on which abortion is permitted.
- Abortion > When abortion is legal > Foetal impairment: Abortion laws by grounds on which abortion is permitted.
- Abortion > When abortion is legal > On request: Abortion laws by grounds on which abortion is permitted.
- Abortion > When abortion is legal > Rape or incest: Abortion laws by grounds on which abortion is permitted.
- Abortion > When abortion is legal > To preserve mental health: Abortion laws by grounds on which abortion is permitted.
- Abortion > When abortion is legal > To preserve physical health: Abortion laws by grounds on which abortion is permitted.
- All births of boys: Live births by sex and urban/rural residence.
- All births of girls: Live births by sex and urban/rural residence.
- Average age of mother at childbirth: Average age of mother at first childbirth.
- Births attended by skill personnel: Births attended by skilled health personnel, percentage.
- Caesarean birth rate: Percentage of live births that are delivered through a cesarean section, more commonly referred to as a c-section.
- Crude birth rate: Country's crude birth rate. The crude birth rate is the number of live births for every 1,000 people.
- Infant mortality rate: How many infants, out of 1000, who will die before attaining one year of age.
- Number of births: Total number of live births. A live birth refers to a birth after which the baby shows signs of life, however, if the baby dies after showing signs of life, it is still considered a live birth.
- Teenage birth rate: Percentage of females aged 15-19 who give birth, out of all females the same age in the country.
- Percent of births registered: Civil registration coverage of births (%).
- Abortion > When abortion is legal > To save the woman's life: Abortion laws by grounds on which abortion is permitted.
SOURCES: United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Population Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Children's Fund. Source tables; United Nations Population Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; World Health Organization. Source tables
