Almost 90 percent of births in the United States in 2016 listed a doctor as the medical attendant for the birth. Certified nurse midwives (CNMs) attended 8.8% of births and less than one percent of births listed another type of midwife as the attendant. CDC data also show that 98.4% of all births in the United States in 2016 occurred in a hospital. Learn more about OB utilization patterns, maternal morbidity and maternal health characteristics in your state in CesareanRates.org’s State Dashboards.