Canada doesn't seem to get that granular with their data. THe questionable part is that the WHO lists the national average stillbirth rate as 2.77 per 1,000. Canada adopted the WHO definition of stillbirth decades ago so their own data is probably similar.
Being generous and taking the more strict definition of the Waterloo region, 2.77 x 113 = 313.01
Divide by 2 since it's measuring 6 months instead of a year, 156.505
Discussion: IDK if it's an indigenous area, but I would expect that to increase the rate of stillbirths. There might be some seasonal variation in stillbirths, but the idea that it's almost entirely concentrated on one half of the years is...less than unlikely. The WJO are corrupt fuckups, but I doubt they consipred with the Canadian government to deflate stillbirth numbers for 6 decades.
EDIT Apparently this is much higher than Canada's data would predict: Per yesiknow: "IN 2020 total for Canada regardless of area 361,667 births. 358,604 live births. 3,063 still births. 3,063 still births." https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1310042801
taoV 2 points 3.6 years ago
This is possibly statistically normal ASSUMING historical data is accurate.
Waterloo had a population of 113k as of 2017 according to census data (617k in the region according to the municipay authority). https://www.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/regional-government/population.aspx
Canada doesn't seem to get that granular with their data. THe questionable part is that the WHO lists the national average stillbirth rate as 2.77 per 1,000. Canada adopted the WHO definition of stillbirth decades ago so their own data is probably similar.
Being generous and taking the more strict definition of the Waterloo region,
2.77 x 113 = 313.01
Divide by 2 since it's measuring 6 months instead of a year,
156.505
Discussion:
IDK if it's an indigenous area, but I would expect that to increase the rate of stillbirths.
There might be some seasonal variation in stillbirths, but the idea that it's almost entirely concentrated on one half of the years is...less than unlikely.
The WJO are corrupt fuckups, but I doubt they consipred with the Canadian government to deflate stillbirth numbers for 6 decades.
EDIT Apparently this is much higher than Canada's data would predict:
Per yesiknow:
"IN 2020 total for Canada regardless of area 361,667 births. 358,604 live births. 3,063 still births. 3,063 still births."
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1310042801