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- Perinatal complications were noted in 13,409 births or one in three (32.1%) live births in 1999. These complications were noted in 32.3% of live births in 1994-1998.
- The proportion of births which had perinatal complications was highest (34.9%) in births to teenage mothers under age 20, and decreased slightly as the maternal age groups increased, from 32.1% in the 20-29 age group to 31.0% for mothers over 40 years of age.
- Intrauterine hypoxia and birth asphyxia accounted for more than half (53.3%) of the perinatal complications noted in 1999. Complications of pregnancy, labour and delivery plus short gestation accounted for more than one out of four (28.8%) of the perinatal complications. Long gestation and high birth weight was noted as a perinatal complication in less than one in ten births (8.3%). Similar pattern was observed for the 1994-1998 period.
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