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STAT AMOUNT DATE RANK HISTORY
Abortion > Attitudes of Christians towards Abortion > Always justified 5% 2006 2nd out of 7
Abortion > Attitudes of Christians towards abortion > Government should interfere 20% 2014 8th out of 9
Abortion > Attitudes of Christians towards abortion > Government should interfere, mostly agree 24% 2014 5th out of 9
Abortion > Attitudes of Christians towards abortion > Government should interfere, mostly disagree 12% 2014 7th out of 9
Abortion > Attitudes of Christians towards abortion > Government should not interfere 40% 2014 1st out of 9
Abortion > Attitudes of Christians towards abortion > Never justified 45% 2006 9th out of 9
Abortion > Attitudes of Christians towards abortion > Sometimes justified 46% 2006 1st out of 9
Abortion > Legal abortions total 825,564 2008 2nd out of 49
Abortion > Legal abortions total per thousand people 2.71 2008 27th out of 49
Abortion > When abortion is legal > Economic or social reasons Legal 2007
Abortion > When abortion is legal > Foetal impairment Legal 2007
Abortion > When abortion is legal > On request Legal 2007
Abortion > When abortion is legal > Rape or incest Legal 2007
Abortion > When abortion is legal > To preserve mental health Legal 2007
Abortion > When abortion is legal > To preserve physical health Legal 2007
Abortion > When abortion is legal > To save the woman's life Legal 2007
All births of boys 2.11 million 2009 1st out of 93
All births of boys per thousand people 6.89 2009 36th out of 88
All births of girls 2.02 million 2009 1st out of 93
All births of girls per thousand people 6.57 2009 35th out of 88
Average age of mother at childbirth 28 2008 18th out of 23
Births attended by skill personnel 99% 1997 16th out of 41
Caesarean birth rate 31% 2012 13th out of 129
Crude birth rate 13.5 2009 24th out of 32
Future births 5,124.49 2100 4th out of 196
Future births per million people 13.79 2010 135th out of 191
Infant mortality rate 6 2012 151st out of 193
Maternal death rate 21 per 100,000 live births 2010 131st out of 178
Maternity leave > Weeks of leave given 52 2013 83th out of 180
Number of births 4.13 million 2009 1st out of 32
Number of births per thousand people 13.46 2009 23th out of 30
Percent of births registered >90 2006
Quadruplet and quintuplet births 435 2009 2nd out of 47
Quadruplet and quintuplet births per million people 1.42 2009 9th out of 47
Single births 3.99 million 2009 1st out of 57
Single births per thousand people 13 2009 14th out of 57
Teenage birth rate 34.2 2010 18th out of 45
Total fertility rate 1.99% 2100 33th out of 196
Triplet births 5,905 2009 1st out of 52
Triplet births per million people 19.25 2009 9th out of 52
Twin births 137,217 2009 1st out of 55
Twin births per million people 447.29 2009 7th out of 55

SOURCES: Wikipedia: Societal attitudes towards abortion (Christianity) (The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. (October 5, 2006). Spirit and Power: A 10-Country Survey of Pentecostals . Retrieved February 13, 2007., ); Wikipedia: Societal attitudes towards abortion (Christianity); United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; United Nations Population Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Children's Fund. Source tables; United Nations Population Division. Source tables; United Nations Population Division. Source tables; United Nations Population Division. Source tables. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Population Division. Source tables. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; World Health Organization. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Population Division. Source tables

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