Caesarean Section Rate

Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: caesarean-section-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Caesarean Section Rate: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2025	Distinct	Empty	Spread
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	166	0
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	166	0
Survey yearreference_yearReading year	The year this country’s reading describes. Readings from different years sit side by side.	Year	—	20	0
Live births delivered by caesarean section (%)caesarean_sectionHeadline	The headline figure: Live births delivered by caesarean section (%).	Number · up to 1 decimal	0.6South Sudan72.2Egyptmiddle 20.7	137	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

One edition, covering 166 countries.

Not in this dataset · 59 places this site covers

UNICEF gives no figure for these in any edition held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

American SamoaAndorraAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaArubaBahamasBahrainBermudaBotswanaBritish Virgin IslandsBruneiCayman IslandsChannel IslandsCook IslandsCuraçaoCyprusDominicaEstoniaFaroe IslandsFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreeceGreenlandGrenadaGuamHong KongIsle of ManIsraelJapanKuwaitLatviaLebanonLiechtensteinLithuaniaMacauMauritiusMonacoMontserratNew CaledoniaNiueNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsPalauPuerto RicoSaint Kitts and NevisSaint MartinSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSan MarinoSaudi ArabiaSeychellesSingaporeSint MaartenSloveniaSomalilandSwedenTaiwanUnited Arab EmiratesUnited States Virgin IslandsVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   UNICEF

   data.unicef.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Caesarean Section Rate (surveys to 2025)

   .MNCH_CSEC

3. 3 · Read by this site

   October 3, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   1 file, one per edition

   It downloads as a CSV: caesarean-section-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/caesarean-section

From UNICEF's Maternal and Newborn Health Coverage Database, read from UNICEF's own data warehouse. Where a country has several sources, UNICEF's own priority flag decides which is used.

• Charted

  Caesarean Section Rate by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• Subjects

  • Health & Wellbeing
  • Gender & Equality

• Near neighbours

  • Life Expectancy at BirthUN DESA Population Division · 74 held · 1950–2023
  • Under-Five Mortality RateUN IGME · 73 held · 1952–2024
  • Prevalence of Severe Food InsecurityFAO · 9 held · 2015–2023