Births — Method of Delivery
(Data are for the U.S.)
- Number of vaginal deliveries: 2,764,285
- Number of Cesarean deliveries: 1,353,572
- Percent of all deliveries by Cesarean: 32.9%
Source: Births: Final Data for 2009, table 22 [PDF - 1.3 MB]
More data
- Birth Data
- Births by method of delivery and Hispanic origin of mother Births: Final Data for 2009, table 21 [PDF - 1.3 MB]
- Recent Trends in Cesarean Delivery in the United States [PDF - 856 KB]
- Trends in Cesarean Rates for First Births and Repeat Cesarean Rates for Low-Risk Women: 1990-2003 [PDF - 550 KB]
- VitalStats - Online data tool
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