Child deliveries in hospitals (number and percentage). Classification: years, region, type of child delivery

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Year (descending)	Typ of child delivery
Year (descending)	Child deliveries total	Child deliveries by forceps delivery	Child deliveries by vacuum extraction delivery	Child deliveries by caesarian section	Child deliveries with complications
2023	667,705	1,278	43,622	217,852	.
2022	711,125	1,417	47,761	226,864	.
2021	765,694	1,790	48,592	237,471	.
2020	743,899	2,652	44,523	222,558	.
2019	748,492	2,141	44,188	222,217	.
2018	757,878	2,937	43,383	221,626	.
2017	762,343	2,538	45,166	232,505	.
2016	761,777	2,670	45,080	232,479	.
2015	716,539	2,889	42,451	222,919	.
2014	692,794	3,026	40,160	220,540	.
2013	661,138	3,324	38,534	210,570	.
2012	653,215	3,037	36,959	208,254	.
2011	642,197	3,420	35,626	206,791	.
2010	656,390	3,797	34,753	209,441	.

Table was compiled on 18. May 2025 12:15 under www.gbe-bund.de

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Child deliveries and births

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In terms of the Hospital statistics of the Federal Statistical Office:
The term "child deliveries" refers to women, who have given birth in hospital in the reporting year, independent of the number of children born. Women, who gave birth via forceps delivery, vacuum extraction delivery or caesarian section as well as women with complications of childbirths are listed below the total number of births. Puerperal complications are defined according to diagnosis code 085 to 092 of the ICD-10. Women treated because of a miscarriage (stillbirths under 1,000g respectively, starting from 1 April 1994 stillbirths under 500g) are recorded separately. Legal abortions are not included.
Finally, the number of children born in hospitals, including the number of children born alive or still is recorded in the Hospital statistics.

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From the year 2005, information on hospital deliveries with complications and women treated for miscarriages are no longer collected as part of the basic hospital data. The various complications during childbirth are proven in the diagnostic data of the hospitals according to ICD-10.
Reporting year 2016, Bremen: Over-coverage in psychiatry.

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The table was extended by the year 2023 on 03 Jan 2025.
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Data Source:	Hospital statistics - basic data of the hospitals and the prevention or rehabilitation facilities
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- Contact Person:	Federal Statistical Office / Statistisches Bundesamt [StBA] - Central Information Service
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Purpose of Data Collection:	Hospital statistics - the basic data provides annual information on staff and equipment of hospitals and prevention or rehabilitation facilities.
Legal Base:	Regulation on the federal hospital statistics (Krankenhausstatistik-Verordnung KHStatV) in connection with the law about statistics for federal purposes (Bundesstatistikgesetz BStatG). For the survey exists a compulsory response according to § 6 KHStatV in connection with § 15 BStatG. The text of the national legislation, as amended, can be found at https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de.
Data Collector:	Regional statistical offices.
Reporting Stations:	Interview group - Regional statistical offices - Federal Statistical Office
Object under Review:	Hospitals, prevention or rehabilitation facilities.
Interviewees:	The supporting organizations or the owners of hospitals and prevention or rehabilitation facilities.
Collection:
- Instruments:	From 2018 on online reporting procedure e.STATISTIK.core or notification via electronic online forms with IDEV.
- Periodicity:	Annually.
- First:	1990 (results for the whole of Germany since 1991).
- Last:	Inapplicable.
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- Regular:	Federal Statistical Office, Special series 12 Series 6.1.1 (annually, https://www.statistischebibliothek.de/mir/receive/DESerie_mods_00000124). From 2022 new form: statistical report.
- Irregular:	Federal Statistical Office, Economics and statistics, various issues.
Completeness, Sample Proportion and Representativity:	Full survey.
Conceivable Modifications:	-
Comparable Data Sources:	-
Remarks:	From 2020 onwards selected characteristics are collected by location.
Last Update:	April 14, 2025

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