Table 6 Neonatal mortality and stillbirth rates by birth weight group in each site and for all the sites combined except Pakistan

Mortality rates for births < 1000 g

 Births < 1000 g, N (%)

819 (0.9)

1560 (0.8)

330 (0.2)

196 (0.6)

361 (0.4)

2447 (0.5)

 Stillbirth, n/N (rate/1000)

635/817 (777.2)

1183/1560 (758.3)

234/330 (709.1)

137/196 (699.0)

215/361 (595.6)

1769/2447 (722.9)

1.10 (1.04, 1.16)

 28-day neonatal mortality, n/N (rate/1,000)

164/179 (916.2)

332/377 (880.6)

76/94 (808.5)

49/59 (830.5)

136/146 (931.5)

593/676 (877.2)

1.04 (0.99, 1.10)

Mortality rates for births 1000–1499 g

 Births 1000–1499 g, N (%)

1770 (1.9)

2489 (1.2)

719 (0.5)

414 (1.3)

557 (0.7)

4179 (0.9)

 Stillbirth, n/N (rate/1,000)

838/1,770 (473.4)

998/2489 (401.0)

348/719 (484.0)

167/414 (403.4)

172/557 (308.8)

1685/4179 (403.2)

1.16 (1.04, 1.29)

 28-day neonatal mortality, n/N (rate/1000)

559/927 (603.0)

774/1484 (521.6)

199/367 (542.2)

138/247 (558.7)

214/383 (558.7)

1325/2481 (534.1)

1.12 (1.04, 1.22)

Mortality rates for births 1500–2499 g

 Births 1500–2499 g, N (%)

16,580 (18.1)

32,576 (15.8)

6278 (4.6)

3592 (11.2)

12,255 (14.7)

54,701 (11.9)

 Stillbirth, n/N (rate/1000)

1292/16,580 (77.9)

1456/32,576 (44.7)

668/6278 (106.4)

330/3592 (91.9)

450/12,255 (36.7)

2904/54,701 (53.1)

1.20 (1.04, 1.38)

 28-day neonatal mortality, n/N (rate/1000)

1591/15,195 (104.7)

1654/31,079 (53.2)

486/5561 (87.4)

227/3260 (69.6)

666/11,783 (56.5)

3033/51,683 (58.7)

1.63 (1.48, 1.80)

Mortality rates for births ≥ 2500 g

 Births > 2500 g, N (%)

72,366 (79.1)

169,717 (82.3)

130,609 (94.7)

27,916 (86.9)

70,181 (84.2)

398,423 (86.7)

 Stillbirth, n/N (rate/1000)

1630/72,366 (22.5)

1023/169,717 (6.0)

1416/130,609 (10.8)

594/27,916 (21.3)

673/70,181 (9.6)

3706/398,423 (9.3)

2.24 (1.90, 2.65)

 28-day neonatal mortality, n/N (rate/1000)

1942/70,125 (27.7)

1721/168,570 (10.2)

1193/128,581 (9.3)

325/27,300 (11.9)

908/69,349 (13.1)

4147/393,800 (10.5)

2.60 (2.34, 2.87)