Dataset · UNICEF
Postnatal Care for Newborns Within Two Days
Postnatal Care for Newborns Within Two Days, 2025 compilation · 109 countries
This is the share of newborns who were checked by a health worker within two days of birth. Most newborn deaths happen in the first days of life, and an early postnatal visit is when danger signs such as infection, breathing problems or feeding difficulties can be caught.
This site holds one edition, Postnatal Care for Newborns Within Two Days, 2025 compilation, read from UNICEF’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Postnatal Care for Newborns Within Two Days · the file
- Newest
- Postnatal Care for Newborns Within Two Days, 2025 compilation
- Held
- 1 edition · 109 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.
| Edition | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Postnatal Care for Newborns Within Two Days, 2025 compilation | 109 | — | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: postnatal-care-newborns-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.
| 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 | — | 109 | 0 | |
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 109 | 0 | |
Survey yearreference_yearReading year | The year this country’s reading describes. Readings from different years sit side by side. | Year | — | 16 | 0 | |
Newborns with a health check within 2 days of birth (%)postnatal_care_newbornsHeadline | The headline figure: Newborns with a health check within 2 days of birth (%). | Number · up to 1 decimal | 7.3 | 100 | 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. A higher value is the better result.
03109 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.
| 2025 | |
|---|---|
| Africa | 47 |
| Americas | 19 |
| Asia | 29 |
| Europe | 6 |
| Oceania | 8 |
| All | 109 |
One edition, covering 109 countries.
Not in this dataset · 116 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.
04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
UNICEF
2 · Their file
Postnatal Care for Newborns Within Two Days (surveys to 2025)
3 · Read by this site
October 3, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
1 file, one per edition
It downloads as a CSV: postnatal-care-newborns-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · 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.
Licence · checked October 3, 2026
- 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, Postnatal Care for Newborns Within Two Days, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
UNICEF. Postnatal Care for Newborns Within Two Days, Postnatal Care for Newborns Within Two Days, 2025 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/postnatal-care-newborns
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.
Charted
Postnatal Care for Newborns Within Two Days by countryWho is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
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
07Questions
Postnatal Care for Newborns Within Two Days: questions and answers
What is the Postnatal Care for Newborns Within Two Days?
This is the share of newborns who were checked by a health worker within two days of birth. Most newborn deaths happen in the first days of life, and an early postnatal visit is when danger signs such as infection, breathing problems or feeding difficulties can be caught.
Which editions of the Postnatal Care for Newborns Within Two Days can I download?
One: Postnatal Care for Newborns Within Two Days, 2025 compilation, as a CSV file.
Does UNICEF rank countries on it?
No. UNICEF publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under CC BY 3.0 IGO, with credit to UNICEF. The licence text is linked on this page.