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Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff 2009 — data table

Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff 2009

Report year 2009Data year 2009

Births attended by skilled health staff (%)Higher is better — rank 1 leadsPublished by UNICEF

23 reference years (1995–2019), covering 80 to 145 countries, from UNICEF’s State of the World’s Children via the World Bank’s indicator API (SH.STA.BRTC.ZS). The share of births attended by a doctor, nurse or midwife — close to a single measure of whether a health system reaches women at the moment they most need it, and it pairs directly with under-five mortality beside it. ⚠ SURVEY-DRIVEN, so the country set changes from year to year: a country missing from an edition was not surveyed, and its care did not lapse. ⚠ Coverage thins sharply after 2019 (57 countries in 2020, 3 in 2022), so those years are not imported and the series ends earlier than the data appears to. ⚠ Many high-income countries sit at or near 100% and stop being distinguishable; the spread that matters is at the bottom. ⚠ These are not 23 published reports — see `restatedByReport`. ⚠ UNICEF does not rank countries on it. A POSITION is derived here (2026-09-10) by ordering the score. ⚠ IT OPENS WITH AN 11-WAY TIE: 11 countries report that every birth is attended and share position 1, and 86 countries hold only 45 distinct values, so this measure separates the countries that still have a problem far better than the ones that do not.

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Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff 2009 — UNICEF

Cite as: United Nations Children’s Fund. The State of the World’s Children. New York: UNICEF.

Licence: CC BY 3.0 IGO

The share of births attended by a doctor, nurse or midwife — from UNICEF's State of the World's Children, served through the World Bank's indicator API (SH.STA.BRTC.ZS). It is the closest thing to a single measure of whether a health system reaches women at the moment they most need it. ⚠ Survey-driven, so a country's readings are sparse and the set of countries changes between years. UNICEF does not rank countries on it, so no rank is stored and none is derived.

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Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff 2009 — 106 rows. Column headings sort the table.
Country	ISO Code	Births attended by skilled health staff (%)
Antigua and Barbuda	ATG	100.0
Armenia	ARM	100.0
Barbados	BRB	100.0
Dominica	DMA	100.0
Greece	GRC	100.0
Grenada	GRD	100.0
Korea, Dem. People's Rep.	PRK	100.0
Lithuania	LTU	100.0
Micronesia, Fed. Sts.	FSM	100.0
Qatar	QAT	100.0
St. Kitts and Nevis	KNA	100.0
Uzbekistan	UZB	100.0
Belarus	BLR	99.9
Bosnia and Herzegovina	BIH	99.9
Brunei Darussalam	BRN	99.9
Croatia	HRV	99.9
Cuba	CUB	99.9
Korea, Rep.	KOR	99.9
Luxembourg	LUX	99.9
Slovenia	SVN	99.9
Ukraine	UKR	99.9
Azerbaijan	AZE	99.8
Chile	CHL	99.8
Fiji	FJI	99.8
Finland	FIN	99.8
Ireland	IRL	99.8
Italy	ITA	99.8
Japan	JPN	99.8
Malta	MLT	99.8
North Macedonia	MKD	99.8
Serbia	SRB	99.8
Estonia	EST	99.7
Georgia	GEO	99.7
Moldova	MDA	99.7
Poland	POL	99.7
Russian Federation	RUS	99.7
Singapore	SGP	99.7
Uruguay	URY	99.7
Bulgaria	BGR	99.6
Czechia	CZE	99.6
Hungary	HUN	99.6
Botswana	BWA	99.5
Montenegro	MNE	99.5
Romania	ROU	99.5
Slovak Republic	SVK	99.5
Bahrain	BHR	99.4
Kazakhstan	KAZ	99.4
Mauritius	MUS	99.4
Thailand	THA	99.4
Albania	ALB	99.3
China	CHN	99.3
Palau	PLW	99.3
United States	USA	99.3
Norway	NOR	99.2
Australia	AUS	99.1
Costa Rica	CRI	99.1
Seychelles	SYC	99.0
Bahamas, The	BHS	98.9
Brazil	BRA	98.9
Latvia	LVA	98.9
St. Vincent and the Grenadines	VCT	98.9
Iceland	ISL	98.8
Denmark	DNK	98.7
Kuwait	KWT	98.7
Austria	AUT	98.6
Canada	CAN	98.6
Colombia	COL	98.6
Malaysia	MYS	98.6
Oman	OMN	98.6
Kyrgyz Republic	KGZ	98.5
Cyprus	CYP	98.3
Germany	DEU	98.3
Jamaica	JAM	98.3
Tonga	TON	98.1
Argentina	ARG	97.9
France	FRA	97.9
Iran, Islamic Rep.	IRN	97.7
El Salvador	SLV	97.5
Saudi Arabia	SAU	97.0
New Zealand	NZL	96.7
Syrian Arab Republic	SYR	96.2
Mexico	MEX	95.3
Turkiye	TUR	95.0
Maldives	MDV	94.8
Paraguay	PRY	93.8
Belize	BLZ	93.5
Suriname	SUR	90.0
Panama	PAN	88.6
Guyana	GUY	87.4
Tajikistan	TJK	87.1
Marshall Islands	MHL	86.5
Ecuador	ECU	85.6
Peru	PER	82.5
Sao Tome and Principe	STP	81.7
Samoa	WSM	80.8
Kiribati	KIR	79.8
Cabo Verde	CPV	75.6
Bhutan	BTN	66.0
Lesotho	LSO	61.5
Zimbabwe	ZWE	60.2
Guatemala	GTM	51.5
Madagascar	MDG	43.9
Kenya	KEN	43.8
Central African Republic	CAF	43.7
Pakistan	PAK	41.0
Bangladesh	BGD	24.4

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