Nordic Perinatal Statistics Collected by NOMBIR (Nordic Medical Birth Registers) Mika Gissler
2 Nordic Perinatal Statistics Data is updated every second year. Next time 2010 and Text, tables and methods available in English, Swedish and Finnish at THL webpage (to be changed): atalreproductionsummary.htm
3 Deliveries in the Nordic countries
4 The number of livebirths
5 Total fertility rate
6 Multiple births per 1000 newborns
7 Mean maternal age , years
8 Mean maternal age for primiparas , years
9 Mothers aged 35 years or more , %
10 Mothers aged less than 20 years , %
11 Proportion of primiparas , %
12 Proportion of multiparas (4+) , %
13 Maternal smoking , %
14 Section rate , %
15 Prematurity (< 37 gw) , % (per deliveries, liveborns only)
16 Low birth weight (< 2500 g) , % (per newborns, live borns only)
17 High birth weight (4000+ g) , % (per newborns, live borns only)
18 High birth weight (4500+ g) , % (per newborns, live borns only)
19 Mean birth weight in grams (liveborn singletons only)
20 Perinatal mortality , 1/1000 (birth weight 1000 grams or more)
21 Mean BMI (Body Mass Index: maternal weight / height 2 )
22 The proportion of overweight mothers with a BMI 25 or more, (Body Mass Index: maternal weight / height 2 )
23 The proportion of obese mothers with a BMI 30 or more, (Body Mass Index: maternal weight / height 2 )
24 III and IV degree tears in vaginal deliveries , %
25 Nordic Perinatal Statistics -Some missing data: Tables 4-7, New tables on mortality and mother’s BMI? -Data on congenital anomalies according to Eurocat definitions: Down, Cleft/Cleft and lip palate, Gastroschisis, Omphalosele, NTDs (Anencephalus and Spina Bifida) -Other comments?