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Institutional Deliveries

Institutional Deliveries, 2025 compilation · 171 countries

This is the share of births that take place in a hospital, clinic or other health facility rather than at home. A facility birth is the main route to a skilled attendant and to emergency care if something goes wrong, which is why it is tracked alongside maternal and newborn deaths.

This site holds one edition, Institutional Deliveries, 2025 compilation, read from UNICEF’s own data and stored exactly as published.

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Institutional Deliveries, 2025 compilation
Held
1 edition · 171 rows
Licence
CC BY 3.0 IGO

01One edition

Every edition

Newest first. Each opens the full table for that edition, and each downloads as a CSV.

Every edition of Institutional Deliveries held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
EditionCountriesChangeReadDownload
Institutional Deliveries, 2025 compilation171—October 3, 2026CSV

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

024 columns

What’s in the file

Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.

Every column in the newest file of Institutional Deliveries: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2025DistinctEmptySpread
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—1710
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—1710
Survey yearreference_yearReading yearThe year this country’s reading describes. Readings from different years sit side by side.Year—220
Live births delivered in a health facility (%)institutional_deliveriesHeadlineThe headline figure: Live births delivered in a health facility (%).Number · up to 1 decimal11.5South Sudan100.07 share itmiddle 96.91040

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. A higher value is the better result.

03171 countries across every edition

Who is covered

How many countries each edition holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.

All regions
Countries in each edition of Institutional Deliveries, by continent.
2025
Africa53
Americas29
Asia47
Europe27
Oceania15
All171

One edition, covering 171 countries.

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method
  1. 1 · Publisher

    UNICEF

  2. 2 · Their file

    Institutional Deliveries (surveys to 2025)

  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

  5. 5 · Used on

    Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

Precision

The headline is stored to 1 decimal, as published.

Rounded by this site

Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.

Changed by this site

Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

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

05Reuse

Licence and credit

What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked October 3, 2026

CC BY 3.0 IGO

  • Share and redistribute it
  • Adapt it and build on it
  • Use it commercially
  • Credit the publisher
  • Say what you changed

The version of CC BY written for intergovernmental organisations. Credit the publisher and say what you changed.

A credit line

Source: UNICEF, Institutional Deliveries, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

UNICEF. Institutional Deliveries, Institutional Deliveries, 2025 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/institutional-deliveries

The publisher’s own citation: UNICEF. Maternal and Newborn Health Coverage Database. New York: UNICEF.

Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.

06Where it is used

Around the site

Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.

07Questions

Institutional Deliveries: questions and answers

What is the Institutional Deliveries?

This is the share of births that take place in a hospital, clinic or other health facility rather than at home. A facility birth is the main route to a skilled attendant and to emergency care if something goes wrong, which is why it is tracked alongside maternal and newborn deaths.

Which editions of the Institutional Deliveries can I download?

One: Institutional Deliveries, 2025 compilation, as a CSV file.

Does UNICEF rank countries on it?

No, and this site does not order it either. The files hold values only.

Can I use it commercially?

Yes, under CC BY 3.0 IGO, with credit to UNICEF. The licence text is linked on this page.

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