Statistics Canada, Canadian Vital Statistics - Death database (CVSD)

Perinatal death of population, category

Perinatal death refers to the death of a child under one week of age (0 to 6 days) or a stillbirth of 28 or more weeks of gestation.

Population refers to the total membership, based on specific characteristics, of a group of people, objects or events at a given time and within a particular geographic area.

The data for this variable are reported using the following classifications and/or lists:

• List of perinatal death