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Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, 2006

Figures for 2006, as UNICEF and WHO (Joint Database on Skilled Birth Attendance) published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, 2006 covers 127 countries. 11 countries share the highest reading, 100.0; Somalia is lowest, at 9.4. The middle country reads 97.6. Against 2005, 62 values changed (37 up, 25 down), 36 countries joined, 21 left.

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Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff · Data for 2006

Highest11 countries share it

100.0

LowestSomalia

9.4

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

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, 2006, 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.

Showing 25 of 127 countries · select a heading to sort

Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, 2006: every country, as published by UNICEF and WHO (Joint Database on Skilled Birth Attendance).
derived
=1AnguillaAIACaribbean100.0
=1BarbadosBRBCaribbean100.0
=1BermudaBMUNorthern America100.0
=1CanadaCANNorthern America100.0
=1GreeceGRCSouthern Europe100.0
=1LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe100.0
=1MontserratMSRCaribbean100.0
=1NiueNIUPolynesia100.0
=1PalauPLWMicronesia100.0
=1QatarQATWestern Asia100.0
=1Saint Kitts and NevisKNACaribbean100.0
=12Antigua and BarbudaATGCaribbean99.9
=12BelarusBLREastern Europe99.9
=12CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe99.9
=12CubaCUBCaribbean99.9
=12SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe99.9
=12UkraineUKREastern Europe99.9
=12UruguayURYSouth America99.9
=19ChileCHLSouth America99.8
=19FinlandFINNorthern Europe99.8
=19ItalyITASouthern Europe99.8
=19JapanJPNEastern Asia99.8
=19KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia99.8
=19Puerto RicoPRICaribbean99.8
=19SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia99.8

02In 2006

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Anguillashared100.0
  2. 1Bermudashared100.0
  3. 1Barbadosshared100.0
  4. 1Canadashared100.0
  5. 1Greeceshared100.0

Lowest

  1. 127Somalia9.4
  2. 126South Sudan9.7
  3. 125Niger17.7
  4. 124Nepal18.7
  5. 123Laos18.9

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 97.6. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032005 → 2006

Since 2005

What changed between 2005 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +36 / −21countries joined / left
  • 62values changed, of 91 in both
  • 37 · 25rose · fell
  • 29unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Benin+ Burkina Faso+ Bangladesh+ Central African Republic+ Cameroon+ Djibouti+ Dominican Republic+ Algeria+ Ghana+ Gambia+ Guinea-Bissau+ Honduras+ India+ Iraq+ Mali+ Niger+ Nepal+ Peru+ Palau+ Papua New Guinea+ Palestine+ Sudan+ Somalia+ South Sudan+ São Tomé and Príncipe+ Suriname+ Syria+ Togo+ Thailand+ Turkmenistan+ Trinidad and Tobago+ Tunisia+ Uganda+ Vietnam+ Yemen+ Zimbabwe− Albania− Burundi− Republic of the Congo− Cook Islands− Dominica− Egypt− Ethiopia− Guinea− Grenada− Iran− Jamaica− Kiribati− Lesotho− Mongolia− Mauritius− Pakistan− Rwanda− Senegal− Sierra Leone− Tanzania− Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

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
  • 83 distinct values among 127

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 1 decimal. 11 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 127 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: 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.

Licence: CC BY 3.0 IGO · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

UNICEF and WHO (Joint Database on Skilled Birth Attendance) (2006). Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, 2006 [data set], describing 2006. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/skilled-birth-attendance/2006

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07Questions

Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, 2006: questions and answers

Which country has the highest births attended by skilled staff in Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, 2006?

11 countries share the highest reading, 100.0, so no single country is named.

What year does Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, 2006 describe?

2006.

How many countries does Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, 2006 cover?

127.

Where can I download Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, 2006?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, 2006 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, 2023.

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