Dynamics of childbirth and hypertensive disorders that occurred during pregnancy in Ukraine (2022–2024)

Abstract

DOI: 10.52705/2788-6190-2025-3-07
УДК 618.3-06:616.24:616.12-008.331

The objective: to conduct a retrospective statistical analysis of the dynamics of childbirth and hypertensive disorders that occurred during pregnancy in Ukraine from 2022 to 2024.
Materials and methods. Data were taken from the Center for Public Health of Ukraine, the Center for Medical Statistics of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, namely the Report on Medical Care for Pregnant Women, Parturient Women and Women in Labor from 2022 to 2024, data from form No. 21, table F212210 (obstetric care in a hospital) and table F212130 (during pregnancy - individual diseases that were or occurred during pregnancy and complicate pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period). Statistical processing of research results was carried out using standard programs "Microsoft Excel 7.0" and "Statistica 8.0"
Results. The number of births in Ukraine from 2022 to 2024 decreased by 16,897 births, the number of physiological births from 62.9% in 2022, 60.3% in 2023 to 60.2% of cases in 2024. The number of pathological births, over the three years of martial law in Ukraine, increased from 37.1% of cases in 2022, 39.7% in 2023, and 39.8% in 2024. The total number of women in Ukraine who gave birth for the first time, unfortunately, has a tendency to decrease: from 2022 to 14,634 births. Analyzing the frequency of hypertensive disorders during pregnancy over the 3 years of the war, there has been an increase in this complication of pregnancy - in 2022 8.9% of cases, in 2023 10.2% of cases, and in 2024 11.2% of cases.
Conclusions. Analysis of the dynamics of childbirth in Ukraine demonstrated a decrease in the frequency of childbirth, an increase in the proportion of pathological childbirth, a decrease in the number of women giving birth for the first time from 2022 to 2024. The number of cases of hypertensive disorders that developed during pregnancy increased from 8.9% of cases in 2022 to 11.2% of cases in 2024 across Ukraine.
The principles of the Helsinki Declaration. The study protocol was approved by the Local Ethics Committee of the institution mentioned in the paper.
No conflict of interests was declared by the authors.