In 2023, around 32.3 percent of all live births were delivered by cesarean section in the United States. The rate of c-section in the U.S. has been increasing since 1997 where it was 20.8 percent to a peak of 32.9 percent in 2009. C-section rate has since varied little and stayed around 32 percent.
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