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Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, 2021

Figures for 2021, as UNICEF and WHO (Joint Database on Skilled Birth Attendance) published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, 2021 covers 99 countries. 17 countries share the highest reading, 100.0; Niger is lowest, at 43.7. The middle country reads 99.3. Against 2020, 50 values changed (17 up, 33 down), 15 countries joined, 14 left.

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Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff · Data for 2021

Highest17 countries share it

100.0

LowestNiger

43.7

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

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, 2021, 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 99 countries · select a heading to sort

Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, 2021: every country, as published by UNICEF and WHO (Joint Database on Skilled Birth Attendance).
derived
=1AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe100.0
=1AnguillaAIACaribbean100.0
=1BahrainBHRWestern Asia100.0
=1DominicaDMACaribbean100.0
=1GrenadaGRDCaribbean100.0
=1LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe100.0
=1MontserratMSRCaribbean100.0
=1North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe100.0
=1OmanOMNWestern Asia100.0
=1PalauPLWMicronesia100.0
=1QatarQATWestern Asia100.0
=1Saint Kitts and NevisKNACaribbean100.0
=1Saint LuciaLCACaribbean100.0
=1South KoreaKOREastern Asia100.0
=1SurinameSURSouth America100.0
=1United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia100.0
=1UruguayURYSouth America100.0
=18BelarusBLREastern Europe99.9
=18Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe99.9
=18CubaCUBCaribbean99.9
=18CyprusCYPWestern Asia99.9
=18Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean99.9
=18GreeceGRCSouthern Europe99.9
=18KuwaitKWTWestern Asia99.9
=18MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia99.9

02In 2021

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Anguillashared100.0
  2. 1Albaniashared100.0
  3. 1United Arab Emiratesshared100.0
  4. 1Bahrainshared100.0
  5. 1Dominicashared100.0

Lowest

  1. 99Niger43.7
  2. 98Madagascar45.8
  3. 97Mauritania70.4
  4. 96Haiti75.8
  5. 95Burundi76.5

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

032020 → 2021

Since 2020

What changed between 2020 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +15 / −14countries joined / left
  • 50values changed, of 84 in both
  • 17 · 33rose · fell
  • 34unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Burkina Faso+ Botswana+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Egypt+ Fiji+ Gabon+ India+ South Korea+ Madagascar+ Mauritania+ Malaysia+ Niger+ Suriname+ Turkmenistan+ Vietnam− Afghanistan− Azerbaijan− Gambia− Kyrgyzstan− Liberia− Malawi− Pakistan− Palestine− Rwanda− South Sudan− Turks and Caicos Islands− Tuvalu− Uzbekistan− Samoa

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.

The site’s method
  • 45 distinct values among 99

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 1 decimal. 17 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 here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the better result.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 99 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. The version of CC BY written for intergovernmental organisations. Credit the publisher and say what you changed.

Cite this edition

UNICEF and WHO (Joint Database on Skilled Birth Attendance) (2021). Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, 2021 [data set], describing 2021. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/skilled-birth-attendance/2021

0624 held

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07Questions

Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, 2021: questions and answers

Which country has the highest births attended by skilled staff in Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, 2021?

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

What year does Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, 2021 describe?

2021.

How many countries does Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, 2021 cover?

99.

Where can I download Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, 2021?

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, 2021 the newest?

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

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