% of premature births - less than 37 weeks in Goiás
Goiás: % of premature births - less than 37 weeks was 12.26 in 2024. ▲ Rising
Latest (2024)
12.26
Change on year
up 7.2%
Rank
11th
of 11 groups
All-time high
12.26
in 2024
All-time low
9.7
in 2017
Years of data
13
2012–2024
% of premature births - less than 37 weeks in Goiás, 2012–2024
Source: UNICEF.
Analysis
Goiás recorded 12.26 for % of premature births - less than 37 weeks in 2024. That is the highest value across all 13 years on record.
That represents a change of up 7.2% on the previous year and up 16.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, % of premature births - less than 37 weeks in Goiás peaked at 12.26 in 2024 and was at its lowest, 9.7, in 2017.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 13 years of available data.
% of premature births - less than 37 weeks in Goiás, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 10.8 | — |
| 2013 | 10.8 | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 10.5 | -2.8% |
| 2015 | 10.2 | -2.9% |
| 2016 | 10.2 | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 9.7 | -4.9% |
| 2018 | 10.8 | +11.3% |
| 2019 | 10.6 | -1.9% |
| 2020 | 10.6 | +0.0% |
| 2021 | 10.73 | +1.2% |
| 2022 | 11.17 | +4.1% |
| 2023 | 11.44 | +2.4% |
| 2024 | 12.26 | +7.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 10.45 | 9.7 | 10.8 | 8 |
| 2020s | 11.24 | 10.6 | 12.26 | 5 |
Countries ranked near Goiás
- 8 Armenia 12.14 compare
- 9 Malta 12.08 compare
- 10 Romania 11.88 compare
- 11 Madagascar 11.81 compare
- 12 Peru 11.74 compare
- 13 Puerto Rico 11.67 compare
- 14 Bosnia and Herzegovina 11.61 compare
More health data for Goiás
- Numero de familias acompanhadas pelo PAIF 108 (2023)
- Percentual de alunos do ensino fundamental que abandonaram a escola 0 (2023)
- Overweight: % of children aged 5 to 9 years who are overweight for 12.67 (2025)
- Overweight: overweight adolescents aged 10 to 19 19.15 (2025)
- Overweight: % of children aged 0 to 5 years with high weight for 5.95 (2025)
- % of Polio immunization coverage 83.24 (2024)
- Suicide rate of children and adolescents aged 10 to 19 years 4.04 (2024)
- Childhood mortality rate - under 5 years old 14.7 (2024)
- % of Triple Viral D1 immunization coverage 82.35 (2024)
- Taxa de mortalidade infantil 12.1 (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is % of premature births - less than 37 weeks in Goiás?
- % of premature births - less than 37 weeks in Goiás was 12.26 in 2024, according to UNICEF.
- What is the highest % of premature births - less than 37 weeks recorded in Goiás?
- The highest recorded value was 12.26 in 2024.
- What is the lowest % of premature births - less than 37 weeks recorded in Goiás?
- The lowest recorded value was 9.7 in 2017.
- How does Goiás rank for % of premature births - less than 37 weeks?
- Goiás ranks 11th out of 11 groups with data for 2024.
- Is % of premature births - less than 37 weeks rising or falling in Goiás?
- Over the last ten years it is up 16.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Goiás data come from?
- The figures come from UNICEF, published as part of % of premature births - less than 37 weeks. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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