asked the Minister for Health the mortality rate of women in Childbirth for the latest available year for this State and for other European countries.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Mortality Rate of Women in Childbirth.
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As the information requested by the Deputy is an the form of a tabular statement, I propose, A Cheann Comhairle, with your permission, to circulate it with the Official Report.
Statement
MORTALITY Rate of Women in Childbirth per 100,000 females in Ireland and European Countries as shown in the United Nations Demographic Year Book for 1967.
|
Portugal |
3.5 (1966) |
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Italy |
2.8 (1965) |
|
Spain |
2.5 (1963) |
|
Romania |
2.4 (1966) |
|
Federal Republic of Germany |
2.3 (1965) |
|
Greece |
1.8 (1966) |
|
Austria |
1.4 (1966) |
|
Switzerland |
1.4 (1965) |
|
Bulgaria |
1.3 (1966) |
|
Hungary |
1.3 (1966) |
|
*Ireland |
1.3 (1966) |
|
Poland |
1.3 (1965) |
|
Czechoslovakia |
1.1 (1965) |
|
France |
1.1 (1965) |
|
Finland |
1.0 (1966) |
|
Iceland |
1.0 (1966) |
|
England and Wales |
0.9 (1966) |
|
Scotland |
0.9 (1966) |
|
Northern Ireland |
0.8 (1966) |
|
Netherlands |
0.8 (1966) |
|
Belgium |
0.7 (1965) |
|
Luxembourg |
0.6 (1964) |
|
Norway |
0.6 (1965) |
|
Denmark |
0.5 (1965) |
|
Sweden |
0.4 (1966) |
* The figure for this country for 1967 was 1.0.