Data for 2009

Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, 2009

Name: Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, 2009
Creator: UNICEF and WHO (Joint Database on Skilled Birth Attendance)
License: https://data.unicef.org/topic/maternal-health/delivery-care/

Figures for 2009, as UNICEF and WHO (Joint Database on Skilled Birth Attendance) published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, 2009 covers 109 countries. 15 countries share the highest reading, 100.0; Pakistan is lowest, at 41.0. The middle country reads 99.3. Against 2008, 52 values changed (33 up, 19 down), 18 countries joined, 16 left.

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Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff · Data for 2009

Highest15 countries share it

100.0

LowestPakistan

41.0

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

109countries
1measure
2009the year it describes
47distinct 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, 2009, 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, 2009: every country, as published by UNICEF and WHO (Joint Database on Skilled Birth Attendance).
derived
=1	Anguilla`AIA`Caribbean	100.0
=1	Antigua and Barbuda`ATG`Caribbean	100.0
=1	Armenia`ARM`Western Asia	100.0
=1	Barbados`BRB`Caribbean	100.0
=1	Cook Islands`COK`Polynesia	100.0
=1	Dominica`DMA`Caribbean	100.0
=1	Greece`GRC`Southern Europe	100.0
=1	Grenada`GRD`Caribbean	100.0
=1	Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe	100.0
=1	Micronesia`FSM`Micronesia	100.0
=1	Montserrat`MSR`Caribbean	100.0
=1	North Korea`PRK`Eastern Asia	100.0
=1	Qatar`QAT`Western Asia	100.0
=1	Saint Kitts and Nevis`KNA`Caribbean	100.0
=1	Uzbekistan`UZB`Central Asia	100.0
=16	Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe	99.9
=16	Bosnia and Herzegovina`BIH`Southern Europe	99.9
=16	Brunei`BRN`South-eastern Asia	99.9
=16	Croatia`HRV`Southern Europe	99.9
=16	Cuba`CUB`Caribbean	99.9
=16	Luxembourg`LUX`Western Europe	99.9
=16	Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe	99.9
=16	South Korea`KOR`Eastern Asia	99.9
=16	Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe	99.9
=25	Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia	99.8
=25	Chile`CHL`South America	99.8
=25	Fiji`FJI`Melanesia	99.8
=25	Finland`FIN`Northern Europe	99.8
=25	Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe	99.8
=25	Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	99.8
=25	Japan`JPN`Eastern Asia	99.8
=25	Malta`MLT`Southern Europe	99.8
=25	North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe	99.8
=25	Puerto Rico`PRI`Caribbean	99.8
=25	Serbia`SRB`Southern Europe	99.8
=25	Singapore`SGP`South-eastern Asia	99.8
=37	Estonia`EST`Northern Europe	99.7
=37	Georgia`GEO`Western Asia	99.7
=37	Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe	99.7
=37	Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	99.7
=37	Russia`RUS`Eastern Europe	99.7
=37	Uruguay`URY`South America	99.7
=43	Bermuda`BMU`Northern America	99.6
=43	Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe	99.6
=43	Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	99.6
=46	Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	99.5
=46	Montenegro`MNE`Southern Europe	99.5
=46	Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe	99.5
=46	Slovakia`SVK`Eastern Europe	99.5
=50	Bahrain`BHR`Western Asia	99.4
=50	Kazakhstan`KAZ`Central Asia	99.4
=50	Mauritius`MUS`Eastern Africa	99.4
=50	Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia	99.4
=54	Albania`ALB`Southern Europe	99.3
=54	China`CHN`Eastern Asia	99.3
=54	Palau`PLW`Micronesia	99.3
=54	United States`USA`Northern America	99.3
58	Norway`NOR`Northern Europe	99.2
=59	Australia`AUS`Australia and New Zealand	99.1
=59	Costa Rica`CRI`Central America	99.1
61	Seychelles`SYC`Eastern Africa	99.0
=62	Bahamas`BHS`Caribbean	98.9
=62	Brazil`BRA`South America	98.9
=62	Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe	98.9
=62	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines`VCT`Caribbean	98.9
66	Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe	98.8
=67	Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe	98.7
=67	Kuwait`KWT`Western Asia	98.7
=69	Austria`AUT`Western Europe	98.6
=69	Canada`CAN`Northern America	98.6
=69	Colombia`COL`South America	98.6
=69	Malaysia`MYS`South-eastern Asia	98.6
=69	Oman`OMN`Western Asia	98.6
74	Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia	98.5
=75	Cyprus`CYP`Western Asia	98.3
=75	Germany`DEU`Western Europe	98.3
=75	Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean	98.3
78	Tonga`TON`Polynesia	98.1
=79	Argentina`ARG`South America	97.9
=79	France`FRA`Western Europe	97.9
81	Iran`IRN`Southern Asia	97.7
82	El Salvador`SLV`Central America	97.5
83	Saudi Arabia`SAU`Western Asia	97.0
84	New Zealand`NZL`Australia and New Zealand	96.7
85	Syria`SYR`Western Asia	96.2
86	Mexico`MEX`Central America	95.3
87	Maldives`MDV`Southern Asia	94.8
=88	Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	93.8
=88	Paraguay`PRY`South America	93.8
90	Belize`BLZ`Central America	93.5
91	Suriname`SUR`South America	90.0
92	Panama`PAN`Central America	88.6
93	Guyana`GUY`South America	87.4
94	Tajikistan`TJK`Central Asia	87.1
95	Marshall Islands`MHL`Micronesia	86.5
96	Ecuador`ECU`South America	85.6
97	Peru`PER`South America	82.5
98	São Tomé and Príncipe`STP`Middle Africa	81.7
99	Samoa`WSM`Polynesia	80.8
100	Kiribati`KIR`Micronesia	79.8
101	Cabo Verde`CPV`Western Africa	75.6
102	Bolivia`BOL`South America	67.0
103	Bhutan`BTN`Southern Asia	66.0
104	Lesotho`LSO`Southern Africa	61.5
105	Zimbabwe`ZWE`Eastern Africa	60.2
106	Guatemala`GTM`Central America	51.5
107	Madagascar`MDG`Eastern Africa	43.9
108	Kenya`KEN`Eastern Africa	43.8
109	Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	41.0

02In 2009

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

1Anguillashared100.0
1Armeniashared100.0
1Antigua and Barbudashared100.0
1Barbadosshared100.0
1Cook Islandsshared100.0

Lowest

109Pakistan41.0
108Kenya43.8
107Madagascar43.9
106Guatemala51.5
105Zimbabwe60.2

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 99.3. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032008 → 2009

Since 2008

What changed between 2008 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

+18 / −16countries joined / left
52values changed, of 91 in both
33 · 19rose · fell
39unchanged

Rose most

Kiribati65.0 → 79.8+14.8
Micronesia90.0 → 100.0+10.0
Paraguay87.2 → 93.8+6.6
Argentina94.8 → 97.9+3.1
Peru79.4 → 82.5+3.1

Fell most

Guyana96.0 → 87.4−8.6
Bolivia71.1 → 67.0−4.1
Ecuador89.3 → 85.6−3.7
Maldives98.3 → 94.8−3.5
Panama91.8 → 88.6−3.2

+ Albania

+ Denmark

+ Grenada

+ Guatemala

+ Iran

+ Jamaica

+ Kenya

+ South Korea

+ Lesotho

+ Luxembourg

+ Madagascar

+ Marshall Islands

+ North Korea

+ São Tomé and Príncipe

+ Syria

+ Thailand

+ Samoa

+ Zimbabwe

− Central African Republic

− Egypt

− Ghana

− Guinea

− India

− Saint Lucia

− Mongolia

− Mozambique

− Nigeria

− Nicaragua

− Philippines

− Rwanda

− Sierra Leone

− Trinidad and Tobago

− Türkiye

− 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

47 distinct values among 109
Values are stored exactly as published, to 1 decimal. 15 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 109 countries has every column.

05The files

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UNICEF and WHO (Joint Database on Skilled Birth Attendance) (2009). Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, 2009 [data set], describing 2009. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/skilled-birth-attendance/2009

0624 held

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