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Stillbirth rate Percent of stillbirths by proximate cause
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•Definition: The number of stillbirths per 1,000 births. For international comparisons, WHO considers stillbirths as pregnancy losses at or after 28 weeks of pregnancy, or a birth weight of at least 1,000 grams.
•Default data source: United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME) Stillbirth Summary
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Percent of stillbirths by proximate cause
•Definition: Stillbirths are not categorized by cause due to a lack of data. Rather, they are categorized by time period, either antepartum (prior to delivery) and intrapartum (during delivery).
•Default data source: Unpublished data from United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME), ‘A Neglected Tragedy: The global burden of stillbirths’, United Nations Children’s Fund, New York, 2020.
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