Mothers who had planned for a c-section birth worldwide as of 2017

Published by
Frédéric Michas,
Mar 14, 2019
This statistic depicts the percentage of mothers worldwide who said they had planned their cesarean section birth as of 2017. According to the data, 39.5 percentage of respondents said their cesarean section was unplanned at that time.

Percentage of mothers who had planned their cesarean section birth worldwide as of 2017

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Release date

March 2017

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2017

Number of respondents

799 respondents

Special properties

Women who had cesarean births

Method of interview

Online survey

Supplementary notes

Question 2: "Your cesarean birth was..."

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