About 7,200 babies are stillborn every day - some 2.6 million per year - and half of these deaths occur during delivery, according to a quintet of studies published by The Lancet, AFP reports.
The figures for 2015 represented a meager drop from around 24.7 to 18.4 deaths for every 1,000 total births from 2000 to last year, the medical journal reported. The overwhelming majority of stillbirths, about 98 percent, occur in low- and medium-income countries.