Press More hospital deliveries in 2015 at lower Caesarean rate

Press release No. 355 of 5 October 2016

WIESBADEN – The number of hospital deliveries in Germany rose by 3.5% to 716,539 in 2015 compared with one year earlier. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that the number of women who gave birth by Caesarean section fell by 0.7 percentage points to 31.1% year on year.

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