Press release No. 348 of 5 October 2017
WIESBADEN – The number of hospital deliveries in Germany rose by 6.3% to 761,777 in 2016 compared with a year earlier. Compared with 2011, this fifth increase in a row amounted to 18.6%. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that the number of women who gave birth by Caesarean section declined from 32.2% to 30.5% in the same period.