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Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, 2016

Figures for 2016, as UNICEF and WHO (Joint Database on Skilled Birth Attendance) published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, 2016 covers 108 countries. 12 countries share the highest reading, 100.0; Ethiopia is lowest, at 27.7. The middle country reads 99.1. Against 2015, 47 values changed (26 up, 21 down), 21 countries joined, 18 left.

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Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff · Data for 2016

Highest12 countries share it

100.0

LowestEthiopia

27.7

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, 2016, 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 108 countries · select a heading to sort

Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, 2016: every country, as published by UNICEF and WHO (Joint Database on Skilled Birth Attendance).
derived
=1AndorraANDSouthern Europe100.0
=1AnguillaAIACaribbean100.0
=1BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia100.0
=1DominicaDMACaribbean100.0
=1LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe100.0
=1MontserratMSRCaribbean100.0
=1PalauPLWMicronesia100.0
=1QatarQATWestern Asia100.0
=1Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean100.0
=1TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia100.0
=1UruguayURYSouth America100.0
=1UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia100.0
=13Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe99.9
=13ChinaCHNEastern Asia99.9
=13CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe99.9
=13CubaCUBCaribbean99.9
=13CyprusCYPWestern Asia99.9
=13El SalvadorSLVCentral America99.9
=13GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia99.9
=13GreeceGRCSouthern Europe99.9
=13ItalyITASouthern Europe99.9
=13KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia99.9
=13KuwaitKWTWestern Asia99.9
=13LatviaLVANorthern Europe99.9
=13North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe99.9

02In 2016

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Anguillashared100.0
  2. 1Andorrashared100.0
  3. 1Bruneishared100.0
  4. 1Dominicashared100.0
  5. 1Lithuaniashared100.0

Lowest

  1. 108Ethiopia27.7
  2. 107Niger39.1
  3. 106Angola49.6
  4. 105Bangladesh49.8
  5. 104Timor-Leste56.7

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 99.1. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032015 → 2016

Since 2015

What changed between 2015 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +21 / −18countries joined / left
  • 47values changed, of 87 in both
  • 26 · 21rose · fell
  • 40unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Angola+ Armenia+ Burundi+ Bangladesh+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Ethiopia+ Guinea+ Indonesia+ India+ Kenya+ Sri Lanka+ Myanmar+ Malawi+ Namibia+ Nepal+ Thailand+ Turkmenistan+ Timor-Leste+ Tanzania+ Uganda+ South Africa− Afghanistan− United Arab Emirates− Antigua and Barbuda− Burkina Faso− Republic of the Congo− Saint Kitts and Nevis− South Korea− Saint Lucia− Mali− Mozambique− Mauritania− Pakistan− Rwanda− Solomon Islands− Suriname− Chad− Türkiye− Zimbabwe

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
  • 53 distinct values among 108

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 1 decimal. 15 countries share 99.9. 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 108 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) (2016). Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, 2016 [data set], describing 2016. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/skilled-birth-attendance/2016

0624 held

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07Questions

Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, 2016: questions and answers

Which country has the highest births attended by skilled staff in Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, 2016?

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

What year does Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, 2016 describe?

2016.

How many countries does Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, 2016 cover?

108.

Where can I download Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, 2016?

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, 2016 the newest?

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

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