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Home Birth Rates by Country 2024
- Percentages for EU countries are cumulative for the years 2015-2019. Percentages for the US are cumulative for the years 2019-2021. Percentages for all other countries are for data year 2021.
- All rates displayed are per 100k residents.
Country | Home Births (% of Total Births) | Home Births per 100k Pop. 2019 | HB/100k Pop. 2018 | HB/100k Pop. 2017 | HB/100k Pop. 2016 | HB/100k Pop. 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chad | 77% | |||||
| Ethiopia | 73% | |||||
| Yemen | 69% | |||||
| Madagascar | 64% | |||||
| Myanmar | 63% | |||||
| Haiti | 60% | |||||
| Nigeria | 59% | |||||
| Angola | 53% | |||||
| Afghanistan | 51% | |||||
| Timor Leste | 51% | |||||
| Bangladesh | 50% | |||||
| Guinea | 47% | |||||
| Liberia | 44% | |||||
| Mozambique | 43% | |||||
| Nepal | 43% | |||||
| Ivory Coast | 41% | |||||
| Morocco | 39% | |||||
| Papua New Guinea | 39% | |||||
| Kenya | 37% | |||||
| Gambia | 37% | |||||
| Indonesia | 36% | |||||
| Tanzania | 36% | |||||
| Pakistan | 34% | |||||
| Guatemala | 34% | |||||
| Cameroon | 33% | |||||
| Mali | 33% | |||||
| Burkina Faso | 33% | |||||
| Bolivia | 32% | |||||
| Ghana | 27% | |||||
| Togo | 27% | |||||
| Uganda | 25% | |||||
| Eswatini | 25% | |||||
| Lesotho | 23% | |||||
| Azerbaijan | 22% | |||||
| Comoros | 22% | |||||
| India | 21% | |||||
| Philippines | 20% | |||||
| Zimbabwe | 20% | |||||
| DR Congo | 19% | |||||
| Sao Tome and Principe | 19% | |||||
| Senegal | 18% | |||||
| Cambodia | 17% | |||||
| Honduras | 17% | |||||
| Netherlands | 16.3% | 159.41 | 159.41 | 161.53 | 165.12 | 164.14 |
| Sierra Leone | 16% | |||||
| Zambia | 15% | |||||
| Peru | 14% | |||||
| Benin | 14% | |||||
| Egypt | 13% | |||||
| Burundi | 12% | |||||
| Tajikistan | 12% | |||||
| Namibia | 12% | |||||
| Guyana | 9% | |||||
| Rwanda | 8% | |||||
| Republic of the Congo | 8% | |||||
| Malawi | 7% | |||||
| Gabon | 7% | |||||
| South Africa | 4% | |||||
| Colombia | 3% | |||||
| Turkey | 2% | |||||
| United States | 1.41% | |||||
| Denmark | 1.4% | 14.73 | 14.85 | 14.91 | 15.06 | 14.34 |
| Germany | 1.3% | 12.17 | 13.35 | 12.35 | 12.51 | 11.74 |
| Belgium | 1.1% | 11.07 | 11.34 | 11.52 | 11.76 | 11.88 |
| France | 1% | 10.62 | 10.73 | 10.91 | 11.16 | 11.43 |
| Jordan | 1% | |||||
| Dominican Republic | 1% | |||||
| Sweden | 1% | 11.14 | 11.38 | 11.48 | 11.83 | 11.74 |
| Portugal | 1% | 8.42 | 8.46 | 8.36 | 8.44 | 8.25 |
| Austria | 1% | 9.57 | 9.68 | 9.66 | 10.04 | 9.76 |
| Moldova | 1% | |||||
| Latvia | 1% | 9.82 | 10.02 | 10.72 | 11.21 | 11.11 |
| Maldives | 1% | |||||
| Hungary | 0.9% | 8.47 | 5.74 | 9.71 | 8.54 | 8.39 |
| Lithuania | 0.8% | 7.94 | 8.06 | 8.4 | 8.54 | 8.67 |
| Luxembourg | 0.5% | 5.03 | 5.14 | 5.18 | 5.2 | 5.37 |
| Estonia | 0.45% | 4.78 | 4.89 | 4.71 | 4.81 | 4.76 |
| Spain | 0.32% | 2.44 | 2.52 | 2.69 | 2.83 | 2.9 |
| Greece | 0.3% | 2.34 | 2.42 | 2.47 | 2.59 | 2.56 |
| Malta | 0.3% | 2.64 | 2.78 | 2.81 | 2.99 | 2.99 |
| Romania | 0.25% | 1.48 | 1.85 | 1.52 | 1.31 | 1.47 |
| Czech Republic | 0.25% | 2.63 | 2.68 | 2.7 | 2.67 | 2.63 |
| Slovakia | 0.25% | 2.62 | 2.66 | 2.67 | 2.65 | 2.56 |
| Finland | 0.2% | 1.65 | 1.73 | 1.83 | 1.92 | 2.02 |
| Ireland | 0.2% | 2.42 | 2.51 | 2.57 | 2.69 | 2.79 |
| Slovenia | 0.15% | 1.39 | 1.27 | 1.47 | 1.48 | 1.5 |
| Italy | 0.1% | 0.8 | 0.78 | 0.75 | 0.73 | 0.69 |
| Poland | 0.03% | 0.3 | 0.31 | 0.32 | 0.3 | 0.29 |
- Comparison of Frequency of Home Births in the Member States of the EU Between 2015 and 2019 - National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Prevalence of home birth among 880,345 women in 67 low- and middle-income countries: A meta-analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys - National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Changes in Home Births by Race and Hispanic Origin and State of Residence of Mother: United States, 2019–2020 and 2020–2021 - CDC National Center for Health Statistics/National Vital Statistics System