Data for 2019

Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, 2019

Name: Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, 2019
Creator: UNICEF and WHO (Joint Database on Skilled Birth Attendance)
License: https://data.unicef.org/topic/maternal-health/delivery-care/

Figures for 2019, as UNICEF and WHO (Joint Database on Skilled Birth Attendance) published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, 2019 covers 110 countries. 15 countries share the highest reading, 100.0; Somalia is lowest, at 31.9. The middle country reads 99.0. Against 2018, 50 values changed (31 up, 19 down), 23 countries joined, 24 left.

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Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff · Data for 2019

Highest15 countries share it

100.0

LowestSomalia

31.9

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

110countries
1measure
2019the year it describes
52distinct 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, 2019, 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, 2019: every country, as published by UNICEF and WHO (Joint Database on Skilled Birth Attendance).
derived
=1	Anguilla`AIA`Caribbean	100.0
=1	Cuba`CUB`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	North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe	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	Turkmenistan`TKM`Central Asia	100.0
=1	United Arab Emirates`ARE`Western Asia	100.0
=1	Uruguay`URY`South America	100.0
=1	Uzbekistan`UZB`Central Asia	100.0
=16	Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia	99.9
=16	Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe	99.9
=16	Bosnia and Herzegovina`BIH`Southern Europe	99.9
=16	Croatia`HRV`Southern Europe	99.9
=16	Cyprus`CYP`Western Asia	99.9
=16	Greece`GRC`Southern Europe	99.9
=16	Japan`JPN`Eastern Asia	99.9
=16	Kuwait`KWT`Western Asia	99.9
=16	Portugal`PRT`Southern Europe	99.9
=16	Serbia`SRB`Southern Europe	99.9
=16	Spain`ESP`Southern Europe	99.9
=27	Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	99.8
=27	Chile`CHL`South America	99.8
=27	Georgia`GEO`Western Asia	99.8
=27	Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	99.8
=27	Luxembourg`LUX`Western Europe	99.8
=27	Maldives`MDV`Southern Asia	99.8
=27	Mauritius`MUS`Eastern Africa	99.8
=27	Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	99.8
=27	Puerto Rico`PRI`Caribbean	99.8
=36	Estonia`EST`Northern Europe	99.7
=36	Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe	99.7
=36	Israel`ISR`Western Asia	99.7
=36	Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean	99.7
=36	Malta`MLT`Southern Europe	99.7
=36	Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe	99.7
=36	Russia`RUS`Eastern Europe	99.7
=43	Argentina`ARG`South America	99.6
=43	Bahrain`BHR`Western Asia	99.6
=43	Bermuda`BMU`Northern America	99.6
=43	Brunei`BRN`South-eastern Asia	99.6
=43	El Salvador`SLV`Central America	99.6
=43	Singapore`SGP`South-eastern Asia	99.6
=49	Finland`FIN`Northern Europe	99.5
=49	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines`VCT`Caribbean	99.5
51	Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	99.4
52	Norway`NOR`Northern Europe	99.3
53	Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean	99.2
54	Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia	99.1
=55	Bahamas`BHS`Caribbean	99.0
=55	Costa Rica`CRI`Central America	99.0
=55	Tajikistan`TJK`Central Asia	99.0
=55	United States`USA`Northern America	99.0
=59	Algeria`DZA`Northern Africa	98.8
=59	Australia`AUS`Australia and New Zealand	98.8
=59	Colombia`COL`South America	98.8
=59	Seychelles`SYC`Eastern Africa	98.8
=63	Burundi`BDI`Eastern Africa	98.6
=63	Oman`OMN`Western Asia	98.6
=65	Austria`AUT`Western Europe	98.4
=65	Brazil`BRA`South America	98.4
=67	Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe	98.3
=67	Slovakia`SVK`Eastern Europe	98.3
=67	Tonga`TON`Polynesia	98.3
70	Canada`CAN`Northern America	98.1
=71	Barbados`BRB`Caribbean	98.0
=71	Guatemala`GTM`Central America	98.0
=71	Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe	98.0
74	France`FRA`Western Europe	97.6
75	Ecuador`ECU`South America	97.2
76	Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	97.0
77	São Tomé and Príncipe`STP`Middle Africa	96.8
78	New Zealand`NZL`Australia and New Zealand	96.5
79	Bhutan`BTN`Southern Asia	96.3
=80	Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe	96.2
=80	Germany`DEU`Western Europe	96.2
82	Belize`BLZ`Central America	95.3
=83	Guyana`GUY`South America	95.0
=83	Panama`PAN`Central America	95.0
85	Saudi Arabia`SAU`Western Asia	94.8
86	Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	94.7
87	Peru`PER`South America	94.4
88	Honduras`HND`Central America	94.1
89	Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	92.3
90	Paraguay`PRY`South America	92.2
91	Kiribati`KIR`Micronesia	91.9
92	Namibia`NAM`Southern Africa	91.7
93	Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe	91.5
94	Iraq`IRQ`Western Asia	90.1
95	Mexico`MEX`Central America	89.4
96	Sierra Leone`SLE`Western Africa	86.9
97	Zimbabwe`ZWE`Eastern Africa	86.0
98	Bolivia`BOL`South America	80.6
99	Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	80.4
100	Nepal`NPL`Southern Asia	77.2
101	Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	74.5
102	Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	73.7
103	Haiti`HTI`Caribbean	69.5
104	Laos`LAO`South-eastern Asia	69.0
105	Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	59.0
106	Guinea-Bissau`GNB`Western Africa	53.8
107	Ethiopia`ETH`Eastern Africa	49.8
108	Chad`TCD`Middle Africa	47.2
109	Central African Republic`CAF`Middle Africa	40.3
110	Somalia`SOM`Eastern Africa	31.9

02In 2019

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

1Anguillashared100.0
1United Arab Emiratesshared100.0
1Cubashared100.0
1Dominicashared100.0
1Grenadashared100.0

Lowest

110Somalia31.9
109Central African Republic40.3
108Chad47.2
107Ethiopia49.8
106Guinea-Bissau53.8

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 99.0. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032018 → 2019

Since 2018

What changed between 2018 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

+23 / −24countries joined / left
50values changed, of 87 in both
31 · 19rose · fell
37unchanged

Rose most

Burundi86.2 → 98.6+12.4
Bangladesh52.7 → 59.0+6.3
Pakistan69.3 → 73.7+4.4
Namibia88.9 → 91.7+2.8
Panama92.9 → 95.0+2.1

Fell most

Iraq95.6 → 90.1−5.5
Paraguay97.7 → 92.2−5.5
Saudi Arabia99.4 → 94.8−4.6
Zambia83.5 → 80.4−3.1
Mexico92.1 → 89.4−2.7

+ Belarus

+ Central African Republic

+ Dominican Republic

+ Algeria

+ Ethiopia

+ Guinea-Bissau

+ Honduras

+ Croatia

+ Haiti

+ Israel

+ Kiribati

+ Luxembourg

+ Nepal

+ Sierra Leone

+ Somalia

+ Serbia

+ São Tomé and Príncipe

+ Seychelles

+ Chad

+ Thailand

+ Turkmenistan

+ Tonga

+ Zimbabwe

− Afghanistan

− Albania

− Benin

− Cameroon

− DR Congo

− Cabo Verde

− Ghana

− Guinea

− Gambia

− Jordan

− Kazakhstan

− Kyrgyzstan

− Lesotho

− Morocco

− Madagascar

− Mali

− Montenegro

− Mongolia

− Malaysia

− Nigeria

− Papua New Guinea

− Suriname

− Tunisia

− Venezuela

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

52 distinct values among 110
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 110 countries has every column.

05The files

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UNICEF and WHO (Joint Database on Skilled Birth Attendance) (2019). Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, 2019 [data set], describing 2019. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/skilled-birth-attendance/2019

0624 held

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How it has moved, charted by country

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