Table 1 Coverage of births in the population, mortality rates, place of delivery and mode of delivery by year, DHIS2 data, Mainland Tanzania, 2016–2020

Institutional deliveries (estimated population coverage)

Facility deliveries, reported (N)

1,284,356

1,426,434

1,675,409

1,795,109

1,881,194

Institutional deliveries, adjusted for missing reports and extreme outliers (N)

1,393,380

1,520,218

1,751,180

1,865,101

1,942,116

 C-sections (N)

138,204

152,445

166,275

178,924

192,777

Districts reporting rate (delivery forms) (%)

96.1

96.8

97.6

98.5

98.0

Total deliveries in population (estimated) (N)

1,957,937

2,071,584

2,237,029

2,298,388

2,375,811

Population coverage institutional deliveries (%)

71.2

73.4

78.3

81.1

81.7

Population coverage C-sections per 100 deliveries (%)

7.1

7.4

7.4

7.8

8.1

Institutional mortality

Stillbirths per 1,000 facility births

15.9

14.3

11.7

10.6

10.0

Fresh stillbirths per 1,000 facility births

6.7

6.2

5.1

4.5

4.3

Percent fresh among all stillbirths

42.1

43.3

43.4

42.9

43.2

Maternal mortality per 100,000 births

75.7

69.6

56.0

56.3

54.0

Place of delivery (distribution of institutional deliveries)

Hospital

44.3

41.2

34.7

32.5

28.3

Health centre

23.3

25.3

26.2

27.3

30.5

Dispensaries

32.3

33.4

39.1

40.2

41.2

Total

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

Mode of delivery (distribution of institutional deliveries)

Spontaneous vaginal birth

88.7

88.6

89.3

89.2

88.9

Vacuum extraction

0.4

0.4

0.3

0.3

0.3

Breech

0.8

0.8

0.7

0.6

0.7

 C-section

10.2

10.2

9.6

9.8

10.1

Total

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0