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15 February 2023 Nearly one third of births by Caesarean section in 2021

Roughly 237,000 women delivered by Caesarean in 2021, which means that nearly one out of three births in hospitals in Germany was by Caesarean section. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that the Caesarean rate was 30.9% for the whole of Germany. It is slightly higher than in 2020 (29.7%). The proportion of such surgical interventions doubled over the last 30 years. 15.3% of women gave birth by Caesarean section in 1991. There are several other obstetric procedures which are used only rarely. A vacuum extractor was employed in 6.3% of deliveries in 2021, forceps were used in 0.2%. 62.5% of women gave birth naturally in a hospital in 2021.

2 February 2023 World Cancer Day: record low of in-patient cancer treatments in 2021

2 November 2022 Number of in-patient treatments for testicular cancer down by 40% within 20 years

30 September 2022 Reference value for hospital costs amounts to 6.07% in 2022

30 August 2022 Number of beds and bed occupancy rate of hospitals almost unchanged in 2021

30 May 2022 Number of women dying of lung and bronchial cancer significantly higher than 20 years ago

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