Table 1

Rates* of live born and stillborn in and from different gestational weeks and periods in Denmark 2000–2012

	2000–2002	2003–2005	2006–2008	2009–2010	2011–2012	2000–2008	2009–2012	2000–2012
Number of live born and stillborn infants
Born (n)	197 222	194 774	196 023	127 165	117 751	588 019	244 916	832 935
Stillborn (n)	835	915	992	539	489	2742	1028	3770
Stillbirths per 1000 ongoing pregnancy weeks (prospective risk of stillbirth)
<37	0.22	0.20	0.21	0.17	0.17	0.21	0.17	0.20
37+0–6	0.39	0.46	0.39	0.27	0.23	0.41	0.25	0.37
38+0–6	0.36	0.51	0.46	0.41	0.34	0.44	0.38	0.42
39+0–6	0.56	0.54	0.63	0.44	0.46	0.57	0.45	0.54
40+0–6	1.20	0.95	0.97	0.93	0.76	1.04	0.85	0.98
41+0–6	2.29	2.40	1.73	1.35	0.54	2.15	0.98	1.82
42+	15.55	6.09	11.16	6.60	7.83	11.60	6.96	10.86
Total	0.35	0.29	0.28	0.23	0.21	0.30	0.22	0.27
From 37 weeks	0.70	0.67	0.63	0.50	0.41	0.67	0.46	0.61
From 40 weeks	1.84	1.43	1.30	1.10	0.74	1.54	0.93	1.36
From 41 weeks	3.12	2.46	2.09	1.51	0.69	2.60	1.14	2.21
Stillborn per 1000 newborn
From 37 weeks	2.39	2.21	2.07	1.68	1.36	2.23	1.52	2.02
From 40 weeks	2.11	1.59	1.41	1.20	0.77	1.71	0.99	1.50
From 41 weeks	2.43	1.82	1.46	1.04	0.41	1.93	0.73	1.57
From 42 weeks	3.16	1.05	1.55	0.82	0.95	2.04	0.86	1.79