Newborns 2012 Eija Vuori Mika Gissler 23/06/2016 1

Number of newborn children and perinatal mortality per births, 1990 – /06/ Source: THL, Medical Birth Register

Average birth weight (g) and children with a birth weight of ≥ g and ≥ g, 1990−2012, % 23/06/ Source: THL, Medical Birth Register

Children with prenatal exposure to maternal smoking by hospital district 2012, (by mother’s municipality of residence) 23/06/ Source: THL, Medical Birth Register

Prenatal exposure to maternal smoking at the start of pregnancy and after the first trimester, all newborn children and children to primiparas, /06/ Source: THL, Medical Birth Register

Perinatal mortality, stillbirths and early neonatal mortality per births, 1992− /06/ Source: THL, Medical Birth Register

Newborns 2012 Of all newborn children in 2012 (59 856), 53 % were born in university hospitals, 37 % in central hospitals and 10 % in other hospitals. One in four children were born in Helsinki University Central Hospital (Kätilöopisto Maternity Hospital, HUCH Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and Jorvi Hospital). There were 12 hospitals with fewer than deliveries in There were 146 deliveries outside hospitals and 63 children were born on the way to the hospital. The proportion of infants with a birth weight of more than g has decreased by just under 4 percentage points over the past 20 years, being 17 per cent in In 2012, perinatal mortality was at 3.9 per births at the lowest level ever since the start of the data collection for the Medical Birth Register in Statistical Report 32/ /06/2016 7