According to researcher Adrian Zenz, 80% of all new IUD placements in the People's Republic of China in 2018 were performed in Xinjiang, despite the region only constituting 1.8% of the country's population.[147][148][149] China's National Health Commission has stated that the figure is 8.7%.[150] According to a fax provided to CNN by the Xinjiang regional government, birth rates in the Xinjiang region fell by 32%.[5] In 2019, the birth rates fell by 24% year over year, a significantly greater drop than the 4.2% decline in births experienced across the entire People's Republic of China.[151][7][37] According to Zenz, natural population growth rates in Xinjiang fell by 84% in the two largest Uyghur prefectures between 2015 and 2018.[152]