You are here

Article info

Article menu
XML
Original research
Trends and projections of caesarean section rates: global and regional estimates

Authors

  • Ana Pilar Betran UNDP/UNFPA/UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction, Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization, Geneve, Switzerland PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jiangfeng Ye Ministry of Education—Shanghai Key Laboratory of Children’s Environmental Health, Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ann-Beth Moller UNDP/UNFPA/UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction, Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization, Geneve, Switzerland PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • João Paulo Souza Department of Social Medicine, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jun Zhang Ministry of Education—Shanghai Key Laboratory of Children’s Environmental Health, Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Ana Pilar Betran; betrana{at}who.int
View Full Text

Citation

Betran AP, Ye J, Moller A, et al
Trends and projections of caesarean section rates: global and regional estimates
BMJ Global Health 2021;6:e005671.

Publication history

  • Received March 10, 2021
  • Accepted May 20, 2021
  • First published June 15, 2021.
Online issue publication 
April 07, 2022

  • Supplementary Data

    This web only file has been produced by the BMJ Publishing Group from an electronic file supplied by the author(s) and has not been edited for content.

Request permissions

If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

Copyright information

© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2021. Re-use permitted under CC BY. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to copy, redistribute, remix, transform and build upon this work for any purpose, provided the original work is properly cited, a link to the licence is given, and indication of whether changes were made. See: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.