Data for 2005

Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, 2005

Name: Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, 2005
Creator: UNICEF and WHO (Joint Database on Skilled Birth Attendance)
License: https://data.unicef.org/topic/maternal-health/delivery-care/

Figures for 2005, as UNICEF and WHO (Joint Database on Skilled Birth Attendance) published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, 2005 covers 112 countries. 14 countries share the highest reading, 100.0; Ethiopia is lowest, at 5.7. The middle country reads 98.7. Against 2004, 58 values changed (32 up, 26 down), 26 countries joined, 12 left.

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Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff · Data for 2005

Highest14 countries share it

100.0

LowestEthiopia

5.7

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end.

112countries
1measure
2005the year it describes
61distinct values1 decimal, as published
Oct 2, 2026read from the publisher
CC BY 3.0 IGOlicence

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, 2005, as published. UNICEF and WHO (Joint Database on Skilled Birth Attendance) ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

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Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, 2005: every country, as published by UNICEF and WHO (Joint Database on Skilled Birth Attendance).
derived
=1	Anguilla`AIA`Caribbean	100.0
=1	Barbados`BRB`Caribbean	100.0
=1	Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe	100.0
=1	Cook Islands`COK`Polynesia	100.0
=1	Greece`GRC`Southern Europe	100.0
=1	Grenada`GRD`Caribbean	100.0
=1	Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe	100.0
=1	Montserrat`MSR`Caribbean	100.0
=1	Niue`NIU`Polynesia	100.0
=1	Qatar`QAT`Western Asia	100.0
=1	Saint Kitts and Nevis`KNA`Caribbean	100.0
=1	Saint Lucia`LCA`Caribbean	100.0
=1	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines`VCT`Caribbean	100.0
=1	Uzbekistan`UZB`Central Asia	100.0
=15	Antigua and Barbuda`ATG`Caribbean	99.9
=15	Bosnia and Herzegovina`BIH`Southern Europe	99.9
=15	Croatia`HRV`Southern Europe	99.9
=15	Cuba`CUB`Caribbean	99.9
=15	Finland`FIN`Northern Europe	99.9
=15	Puerto Rico`PRI`Caribbean	99.9
=15	Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe	99.9
=15	Uruguay`URY`South America	99.9
=23	Albania`ALB`Southern Europe	99.8
=23	Chile`CHL`South America	99.8
=23	Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe	99.8
=23	Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	99.8
=23	Japan`JPN`Eastern Asia	99.8
=23	Singapore`SGP`South-eastern Asia	99.8
=23	Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe	99.8
=30	Brunei`BRN`South-eastern Asia	99.7
=30	Estonia`EST`Northern Europe	99.7
=30	Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe	99.7
=30	Malta`MLT`Southern Europe	99.7
=30	Serbia`SRB`Southern Europe	99.7
=35	Bermuda`BMU`Northern America	99.6
=35	Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	99.6
=37	Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe	99.5
=37	Slovakia`SVK`Eastern Europe	99.5
=39	Australia`AUS`Australia and New Zealand	99.4
=39	Kazakhstan`KAZ`Central Asia	99.4
=39	Russia`RUS`Eastern Europe	99.4
=39	United States`USA`Northern America	99.4
=43	Cyprus`CYP`Western Asia	99.3
=43	Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	99.3
=45	Mauritius`MUS`Eastern Africa	99.2
=45	Mongolia`MNG`Eastern Asia	99.2
=45	Norway`NOR`Northern Europe	99.2
=48	Argentina`ARG`South America	99.1
=48	North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe	99.1
=50	Dominica`DMA`Caribbean	99.0
=50	Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe	99.0
=50	Montenegro`MNE`Southern Europe	99.0
=50	Seychelles`SYC`Eastern Africa	99.0
=54	Canada`CAN`Northern America	98.8
=54	Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe	98.8
56	Bahamas`BHS`Caribbean	98.7
=57	Austria`AUT`Western Europe	98.6
=57	Brazil`BRA`South America	98.6
=57	Kuwait`KWT`Western Asia	98.6
60	Costa Rica`CRI`Central America	98.5
61	Georgia`GEO`Western Asia	98.3
62	Germany`DEU`Western Europe	98.2
=63	Malaysia`MYS`South-eastern Asia	98.1
=63	Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe	98.1
65	Oman`OMN`Western Asia	98.0
=66	France`FRA`Western Europe	97.9
=66	Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia	97.9
68	Armenia`ARM`Western Asia	97.8
=69	Bahrain`BHR`Western Asia	97.5
=69	China`CHN`Eastern Asia	97.5
71	Iran`IRN`Southern Asia	97.3
72	Fiji`FJI`Melanesia	97.2
=73	Guyana`GUY`South America	96.7
=73	Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean	96.7
75	New Zealand`NZL`Australia and New Zealand	96.6
76	Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	96.5
77	Tonga`TON`Polynesia	96.1
78	Saudi Arabia`SAU`Western Asia	96.0
79	Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia	94.4
80	Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	94.0
81	Vanuatu`VUT`Melanesia	92.0
82	Maldives`MDV`Southern Asia	91.6
=83	Mexico`MEX`Central America	91.1
=83	Panama`PAN`Central America	91.1
85	Colombia`COL`South America	90.7
86	Belize`BLZ`Central America	89.3
87	Paraguay`PRY`South America	87.5
88	El Salvador`SLV`Central America	87.2
89	Republic of the Congo`COG`Middle Africa	83.4
90	Micronesia`FSM`Micronesia	82.7
91	Tajikistan`TJK`Central Asia	82.4
=92	Ecuador`ECU`South America	78.6
=92	Nicaragua`NIC`Central America	78.6
94	Cabo Verde`CPV`Western Africa	77.5
95	Egypt`EGY`Northern Africa	74.2
96	Kiribati`KIR`Micronesia	63.0
97	Bolivia`BOL`South America	61.9
98	Malawi`MWI`Eastern Africa	56.1
99	Lesotho`LSO`Southern Africa	55.4
100	Côte d’Ivoire`CIV`Western Africa	55.1
101	Bhutan`BTN`Southern Asia	52.3
102	Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	51.9
103	Cambodia`KHM`South-eastern Asia	48.8
104	Tanzania`TZA`Eastern Africa	43.4
105	Sierra Leone`SLE`Western Africa	40.0
106	Rwanda`RWA`Eastern Africa	38.6
107	Guinea`GIN`Western Africa	38.0
108	Burundi`BDI`Eastern Africa	31.8
109	Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	31.0
110	Haiti`HTI`Caribbean	26.1
111	Laos`LAO`South-eastern Asia	14.6
112	Ethiopia`ETH`Eastern Africa	5.7

02In 2005

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

1Anguillashared100.0
1Belarusshared100.0
1Barbadosshared100.0
1Cook Islandsshared100.0
1Greeceshared100.0

Lowest

112Ethiopia5.7
111Laos14.6
110Haiti26.1
109Pakistan31.0
108Burundi31.8

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 98.7. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032004 → 2005

Since 2004

What changed between 2004 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

+26 / −12countries joined / left
58values changed, of 86 in both
32 · 26rose · fell
28unchanged

Rose most

Cambodia16.3 → 48.8+32.5
Paraguay77.2 → 87.5+10.3
Maldives84.0 → 91.6+7.6
Tajikistan75.1 → 82.4+7.3
Cyprus95.7 → 99.3+3.6

Fell most

Côte d’Ivoire68.0 → 55.1−12.9
Senegal58.0 → 51.9−6.1
Colombia95.6 → 90.7−4.9
Botswana97.3 → 94.0−3.3
Tonga98.0 → 96.1−1.9

+ Albania

+ Burundi

+ Bhutan

+ Republic of the Congo

+ Cook Islands

+ Cabo Verde

+ Egypt

+ Micronesia

+ Guinea

+ Grenada

+ Haiti

+ Iran

+ Jamaica

+ Kiribati

+ Laos

+ Mauritius

+ Niue

+ Oman

+ Pakistan

+ Rwanda

+ Saudi Arabia

+ Sierra Leone

+ El Salvador

+ Seychelles

+ Tanzania

+ Vanuatu

− United Arab Emirates

− Bangladesh

− Cameroon

− Lebanon

− Morocco

− Madagascar

− Papua New Guinea

− North Korea

− Palestine

− Chad

− Trinidad and Tobago

− South Africa

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

61 distinct values among 112
Values are stored exactly as published, to 1 decimal. 14 countries share 100.0. Countries sharing a value share a position too.
The position is ours
UNICEF and WHO (Joint Database on Skilled Birth Attendance) publishes values only; the order is this site’s.
Nothing missing
Every one of the 112 countries has every column.

05The files

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UNICEF and WHO (Joint Database on Skilled Birth Attendance) (2005). Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, 2005 [data set], describing 2005. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/skilled-birth-attendance/2005

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