Perinatal death rate, Canada, 2007 to 2011
Note:
*Perinatal death is the death of a child under one week of age (0 to 6 days) or a stillbirth of 28 or more weeks of gestation.
Source: CICH graphic created using data adapted from Statistics Canada. Table 102-0508 – Perinatal mortality (number and rates) and components, Canada, provinces and territories, annual. http://www5.statcan.gc.ca/cansim/a26?lang=eng&retrLang=eng&id=1020508&&pattern=&stByVal=1&p1=1&p2=-1&tabMode=dataTable&csid= -accessed June 21, 2017.
The perinatal death rate was 6 per 1,000 total births in 2011. The rate was stable between 2007 and 2011.
49% of these deaths were late neonatal deaths – or stillbirths of 28 or more weeks of gestation, excluding unknown gestational age.1
51% were early neonatal deaths, or the death of a child under one week of age (0 to 6 days).1
1Statistics Canada. Table 102-0508 – Perinatal mortality (number and rates) and components, Canada, provinces and territories, annual. http://www5.statcan.gc.ca/cansim/a26?lang=eng&retrLang=eng&id=1020508&&pattern=&stByVal=1&p1=1&p2=-1&tabMode=dataTable&csid=-accessed June 21, 2017.