Data for 2018

Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, 2018

Name: Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, 2018
Creator: UNICEF and WHO (Joint Database on Skilled Birth Attendance)
License: https://data.unicef.org/topic/maternal-health/delivery-care/

Figures for 2018, as UNICEF and WHO (Joint Database on Skilled Birth Attendance) published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, 2018 covers 111 countries. 11 countries share the highest reading, 100.0; Nigeria is lowest, at 43.3. The middle country reads 99.1. Against 2017, 50 values changed (26 up, 24 down), 23 countries joined, 12 left.

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Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff · Data for 2018

Highest11 countries share it

100.0

LowestNigeria

43.3

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

111countries
1measure
2018the year it describes
55distinct 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, 2018, 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, 2018: every country, as published by UNICEF and WHO (Joint Database on Skilled Birth Attendance).
derived
=1	Anguilla`AIA`Caribbean	100.0
=1	Dominica`DMA`Caribbean	100.0
=1	Grenada`GRD`Caribbean	100.0
=1	Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe	100.0
=1	Montserrat`MSR`Caribbean	100.0
=1	Palau`PLW`Micronesia	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	Uruguay`URY`South America	100.0
=1	Uzbekistan`UZB`Central Asia	100.0
=12	Bosnia and Herzegovina`BIH`Southern Europe	99.9
=12	Cuba`CUB`Caribbean	99.9
=12	Cyprus`CYP`Western Asia	99.9
=12	El Salvador`SLV`Central America	99.9
=12	Greece`GRC`Southern Europe	99.9
=12	Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	99.9
=12	Japan`JPN`Eastern Asia	99.9
=12	Kazakhstan`KAZ`Central Asia	99.9
=12	Kuwait`KWT`Western Asia	99.9
=12	North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe	99.9
=12	Portugal`PRT`Southern Europe	99.9
=12	Spain`ESP`Southern Europe	99.9
=24	Albania`ALB`Southern Europe	99.8
=24	Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	99.8
=24	Brunei`BRN`South-eastern Asia	99.8
=24	Chile`CHL`South America	99.8
=24	Georgia`GEO`Western Asia	99.8
=24	Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia	99.8
=24	Mauritius`MUS`Eastern Africa	99.8
=24	Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	99.8
=32	Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe	99.7
=32	Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean	99.7
=32	Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	99.7
=32	Malta`MLT`Southern Europe	99.7
=32	Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe	99.7
=32	Puerto Rico`PRI`Caribbean	99.7
=32	Russia`RUS`Eastern Europe	99.7
=39	Bahrain`BHR`Western Asia	99.6
=39	Estonia`EST`Northern Europe	99.6
=39	Finland`FIN`Northern Europe	99.6
=39	Malaysia`MYS`South-eastern Asia	99.6
=39	Maldives`MDV`Southern Asia	99.6
=39	Singapore`SGP`South-eastern Asia	99.6
=45	Argentina`ARG`South America	99.5
=45	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines`VCT`Caribbean	99.5
=45	Tunisia`TUN`Northern Africa	99.5
=48	Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia	99.4
=48	Bermuda`BMU`Northern America	99.4
=48	Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	99.4
=48	Saudi Arabia`SAU`Western Asia	99.4
52	Mongolia`MNG`Eastern Asia	99.3
=53	Norway`NOR`Northern Europe	99.2
=53	Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	99.2
=53	United Arab Emirates`ARE`Western Asia	99.2
56	United States`USA`Northern America	99.1
=57	Bahamas`BHS`Caribbean	99.0
=57	Barbados`BRB`Caribbean	99.0
=57	Guatemala`GTM`Central America	99.0
=57	Tajikistan`TJK`Central Asia	99.0
=61	Brazil`BRA`South America	98.8
=61	Montenegro`MNE`Southern Europe	98.8
=63	Australia`AUS`Australia and New Zealand	98.7
=63	Venezuela`VEN`South America	98.7
65	Oman`OMN`Western Asia	98.6
66	Costa Rica`CRI`Central America	98.5
=67	Austria`AUT`Western Europe	98.4
=67	Colombia`COL`South America	98.4
=67	Suriname`SUR`South America	98.4
70	Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe	98.2
71	France`FRA`Western Europe	98.1
=72	Canada`CAN`Northern America	98.0
=72	Slovakia`SVK`Eastern Europe	98.0
74	Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe	97.9
75	Paraguay`PRY`South America	97.7
76	Cabo Verde`CPV`Western Africa	97.3
77	New Zealand`NZL`Australia and New Zealand	96.4
=78	Bhutan`BTN`Southern Asia	96.2
=78	Germany`DEU`Western Europe	96.2
80	Ecuador`ECU`South America	96.0
81	Iraq`IRQ`Western Asia	95.6
82	Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe	95.3
83	Guyana`GUY`South America	95.1
84	Belize`BLZ`Central America	94.8
85	Peru`PER`South America	93.7
86	Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	93.6
87	Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe	93.1
88	Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	93.0
89	Panama`PAN`Central America	92.9
90	Mexico`MEX`Central America	92.1
91	Namibia`NAM`Southern Africa	88.9
=92	Lesotho`LSO`Southern Africa	86.6
=92	Morocco`MAR`Northern Africa	86.6
94	Burundi`BDI`Eastern Africa	86.2
95	DR Congo`COD`Middle Africa	85.2
96	Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	83.5
97	Bolivia`BOL`South America	83.1
98	Gambia`GMB`Western Africa	82.7
99	Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	78.9
100	Benin`BEN`Western Africa	78.1
101	Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	74.2
102	Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	69.3
103	Cameroon`CMR`Middle Africa	69.0
104	Laos`LAO`South-eastern Asia	68.0
105	Mali`MLI`Western Africa	67.3
106	Afghanistan`AFG`Southern Asia	58.8
107	Papua New Guinea`PNG`Melanesia	56.4
108	Guinea`GIN`Western Africa	55.3
109	Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	52.7
110	Madagascar`MDG`Eastern Africa	46.1
111	Nigeria`NGA`Western Africa	43.3

02In 2018

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

1Anguillashared100.0
1Dominicashared100.0
1Grenadashared100.0
1Saint Kitts and Nevisshared100.0
1Saint Luciashared100.0

Lowest

111Nigeria43.3
110Madagascar46.1
109Bangladesh52.7
108Guinea55.3
107Papua New Guinea56.4

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

032017 → 2018

Since 2017

What changed between 2017 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

+23 / −12countries joined / left
50values changed, of 88 in both
26 · 24rose · fell
38unchanged

Rose most

Guatemala69.6 → 99.0+29.4
Namibia71.6 → 88.9+17.3
Burundi79.1 → 86.2+7.1
Senegal68.4 → 74.2+5.8
Argentina93.9 → 99.5+5.6

Fell most

Bangladesh67.8 → 52.7−15.1
Mexico96.6 → 92.1−4.5
Bolivia85.4 → 83.1−2.3
Latvia99.9 → 97.9−2.0
Guyana96.7 → 95.1−1.6

+ Albania

+ United Arab Emirates

+ Benin

+ Bahamas

+ Barbados

+ Cameroon

+ DR Congo

+ Guinea

+ Gambia

+ Jordan

+ Kyrgyzstan

+ Saint Kitts and Nevis

+ Lesotho

+ Morocco

+ Madagascar

+ Mali

+ Montenegro

+ Mongolia

+ Pakistan

+ Papua New Guinea

+ Suriname

+ Tunisia

+ Zambia

− Andorra

− Antigua and Barbuda

− Czechia

− Croatia

− Haiti

− Marshall Islands

− Nicaragua

− Philippines

− North Korea

− Sierra Leone

− Togo

− Trinidad and Tobago

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

55 distinct values among 111
Values are stored exactly as published, to 1 decimal. 12 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 111 countries has every column.

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Cite this edition

UNICEF and WHO (Joint Database on Skilled Birth Attendance) (2018). Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, 2018 [data set], describing 2018. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/skilled-birth-attendance/2018

0624 held

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