Triplet birth rate up by four times in Uzbekistan over 10 years

SOCIETY 15:30 / 30.11.2021 2846

According to the committee, in 2010, 103 triplet births were registered in the republic. The figure remained relatively the same in 2011 – 106 births.

A year later, in 2012, there was a considerable increase in triplet births – 166, before dropping to 143 in 2013. 

After that, the figure started to rise incrementally: 177 – in 2014, 206 – in 2015, 244 – in 2016, 263 – in 2017, 346 – in 2018, 381 – in 2019 and 430 – in 2020.

According to researches, twins occur in about one in 250 pregnancies, triplets in about one in 10,000 pregnancies, and quadruplets in about one in 700,000 pregnancies.

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