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Empowering women can improve their overall reproductive health and help reduce stillbirths. Women empowerment has been defined as women\u2019s ability to make choices in economic decision-making, household and health care decision-making. In this paper, we aimed to evaluate if women\u2019s empowerment is associated with stillbirths.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>Data from 2016 Nepal Demographic Health Surveys (NDHS) were analysed to evaluate the association between women\u2019s empowerment and stillbirths. Equiplots were generated to assess the distribution of stillbirths by wealth quintile, place of residence and level of maternal education using data from NHDS 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011 and 2016 data. For the association of women empowerment factors and stillbirths, univariate and multivariate analyses were conducted.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>A total of 88 stillbirths were reported during the survey. Univariate analysis showed age of mother, education of mother, age of husband, wealth index, head of household, decision on healthcare and decision on household purchases had significant association with stillbirths (p\u2009&lt;\u20090.05). In multivariate analysis, only maternal age 35\u00a0years and above was significant (aOR 2.42; 1.22\u20134.80). Education of mother (aOR 1.48; 0.94\u20132.33), age of husband (aOR 1.54; 0.86\u20132.76), household head (aOR 1.51; 0.88\u20132.59), poor wealth index (aOR 1.62; 0.98\u20132.68), middle wealth index (aOR 1.37; 0.76\u20132.47), decision making for healthcare (aOR 1.36; 0.84\u20132.21) and household purchases (aOR 1.01; 0.61\u20131.66) had no any significant association with stillbirths.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>There are various factors linked with stillbirths. It is important to track stillbirths to improve health outcomes of mothers and newborn. 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