| Table 2. Definitions of the term “live birth” according to different publications | |
| Publication | Definition of live birth |
| Hill et al. (2013) | Birth of a live infant after 23 weeks' gestation |
| Kirkegaard et al. (2016) | Birth of a child |
| Pribenszky et al. (2017) | Baby who was born alive |
| Zhu et al. (2018) | Infant born alive after 24 weeks of gestation who survived more than 28 days |
| World Health Organization (2019a) | Complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of conception, irrespective of the duration of the pregnancy, which, after such separation, breathes or shows any other evidence of life |