Statistics and registers
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Perinatal statistics: parturients, deliveries and
newborns 2010
In 2010, there were 61 371 births in Finland, the highest number
since 1995 and about 1 per cent more than in 2009. Births have
increased by 8 per cent over the last ten years. North Ostrobothnia
had the greatest number of deliveries per women of childbearing age
while Etelä-Savo had the lowest number. In 2010, one in every four
children was born in Helsinki University Central Hospital
(Kätilöopisto Maternity Hospital, Department of Obstetrics and
Gynaecology, and Jorvi Hospital).
The mean age of parturients has long been steady at about 30
(30.1 in 2010). Parturients aged 35 and over accounted for 18.0 per
cent of the total. This was more than the previous year, but lower
than in the earlier 2000s (18.1-19.4%).
The average body mass index of parturients (BMI before
pregnancy) was 24.4. One in three parturients (34%) was overweight,
i.e. had a BMI of 25 or more. Some 12 per cent of all parturients
were obese (BMI ≥ 30); this was most frequent in the hospital
districts of Satakunta and North Karelia (16%).
The percentage of women who smoke during pregnancy (15%) is
still at the same level as in the late 1980s. In 2010, however, one
third of all parturients stopped smoking during pregnancy. Every
other expectant mother under the age of 20 smoked at the start of
pregnancy; one in four out of this group stopped smoking during the
first trimester.
The number of parturients receiving epidural anaesthesia for
pain relief has increased by 6 percentage points since 2000. The
percentage of caesareans has long remained at about the same level
and stood at 16.3 per cent of all deliveries in 2010. Vacuum
extractor deliveries have increased by just under 3 percentage
points in the last ten years (8.6% in 2010). The use of episiotomy,
in turn, has decreased since 2000 by slightly less than 18
percentage points (24% in 2010).
Perinatal mortality (stillbirths or deaths during the first week
of life) was lower than it has been since 1987, at only 4.0 per
1000 births in 2010.
Figure 1: Parturients who smoke and stop smoking at the
start of pregnancy by age group, 2010
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Source: Perinataalitilasto - synnyttäjät, synnytykset ja
vastasyntyneet 2010 -
Perinatalstatistik - föderskor, förlossningar och nyfödda 2010
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Perinatal statistics: parturients, deliveries and newborns
2010.
Statistical Summary 27/2011, 5.10.2011
Official Statistics of Finland, Health 2011. THL.
Further information:
Eija Vuori tel. +358 9 3967 2244 and Mika Gissler tel +358 9 3967
2279
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Published 16.3.2006, Updated
13.10.2011
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