Table 1

Births, late terminations of pregnancy for fetal or maternal reason, and deaths at 22–32 weeks gestation in 1997 in nine regions of France

GA (weeks)	All births and late terminations		Late terminations		All births	Antepartum deaths		Intrapartum deaths		Total stillbirths		Live births		Died in delivery room		Admitted to NICU‡		Survived to discharge
GA (weeks)	No	%*	No	%†	No	No	%‡	No	%‡	No	%‡	No	%‡	No	%§	No	%§	No	%§
*Distribution of gestational age of all births and late terminations.
†Percentage of late terminations for each gestational age.
‡Percentage of all births.
§Percentage of live births.
GA, gestational age; NICU, neonatal intensive care unit.
22	204	5	102	50	102	62	61	24	24	86	84	16	16	16	100	0	0	0	0
23	284	6	147	52	137	71	52	36	26	107	78	30	22	24	80	6	20	0	0
24	211	5	96	46	115	50	43	23	20	73	63	42	37	15	36	27	64	13	31
25	285	6	81	28	204	60	29	25	12	85	42	119	58	25	21	94	79	59	50
26	312	7	73	23	239	69	29	12	5	81	34	158	66	17	11	141	89	89	56
27	349	8	60	17	289	53	18	6	2	59	20	230	80	11	5	219	95	164	71
28	388	9	50	13	338	50	15	3	1	53	16	285	84	3	1	282	99	222	78
29	344	8	20	6	324	48	15	3	1	51	16	273	84	4	1	269	99	244	89
30	507	12	27	5	480	55	11	6	1	61	13	419	87	8	2	411	98	385	92
31	635	14	36	6	599	46	8	2	0	48	8	551	92	3	1	548	99	526	95
32	876	20	30	3	846	65	8	3	0	68	8	778	92	1	0	777	100	757	97
Total	4395	100	722	16	3673	629	17	143	4	772	21	2901	79	127	4	2774	96	2459	85