UNICEF · Antenatal Care Coverage, At Least Four Visits
Antenatal care (four or more visits) by country
What share of women are seen at least four times during pregnancy?
Belarus placed first of the 119 countries compared in the 2025 edition, at 99.9%, and Somalia last, at 24.4%. In the middle country the figure was 79.0%. 34 readings from before 2015 are listed but not compared.
Antenatal care (four or more visits) · the 2025 edition
Context statistic
Highest of 119Belarus
99.9%01the 2025 edition · position · derived
Who leads
The three countries at the highest end of 119 compared, the three at the other end, and the first on each continent.
1Photo: zedlik , cropped by Jjtkk · CC BY-SA 3.0, greyscale
2Photo: Haakon S. Krohn derivative work: JamesA · CC BY-SA 3.0, greyscale
3Photo: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen · CC BY-SA 3.0, greyscale
Lowest in the 2025 edition
- 152
Somalia24.4% - =150
Chad31.0% - =150
South Sudan31.0%
Positions out of 153. Where a country sits says how it compares with the others measured, and nothing about why.
02Every measured country
Antenatal care (four or more visits) on a map
Each country is shaded by its value, in five groups holding the same number of countries. Hover a country for its value, or select it to open its profile. Below the map, each continent’s middle country.
Darker is a higher value — the better end.
- 24.4–54.8%
- 56.3–70.1%
- 71.0–83.1%
- 83.6–93.1%
- 93.2–99.9%
- Hatched: a reading from before 2015, listed but not compared (34)
- No reading in the 2025 edition
- Europe
95.1%
the middle country, of 8 measured · 49 members
Belarus99.9%
Romania70.1%Highest and lowest reading in Europe.
- Americas
88.3%
the middle country, of 21 measured · 48 members
Uruguay97.6%
Haiti66.6%Highest and lowest reading in Americas.
- Asia
86.6%
the middle country, of 36 measured · 52 members
Qatar98.2%
Yemen32.4%Highest and lowest reading in Asia.
- Oceania
67.0%
the middle country, of 9 measured · 21 members
Fiji88.7%
Papua New Guinea49.0%Highest and lowest reading in Oceania.
- Africa
64.3%
the middle country, of 45 measured · 55 members
Egypt89.9%Somalia24.4%Highest and lowest reading in Africa.
- Every region
18 sub-regions, highest middle country first
- Southern Europe
95.1%
the middle country, of 6 measured · 17 members
Serbia96.6%
Albania77.8%Highest and lowest reading in Southern Europe.
- Central Asia
94.0%
the middle country, of 5 measured · 5 members
Kazakhstan95.3%
Tajikistan62.1%Highest and lowest reading in Central Asia.
- Western Asia
89.7%
the middle country, of 11 measured · 19 members
Qatar98.2%Yemen32.4%Highest and lowest reading in Western Asia.
- Central America
88.3%
the middle country, of 5 measured · 8 members
Mexico94.3%
Belize76.1%Highest and lowest reading in Central America.
- Caribbean
88.1%
the middle country, of 6 measured · 24 members
Trinidad and Tobago93.8%Haiti66.6%Highest and lowest reading in Caribbean.
- South America
87.5%
the middle country, of 10 measured · 12 members
Uruguay97.6%
Suriname67.5%Highest and lowest reading in South America.
- South-eastern Asia
83.1%
the middle country, of 9 measured · 11 members
Malaysia98.1%
Myanmar58.6%Highest and lowest reading in South-eastern Asia.
- Northern Africa
78.6%
the middle country, of 5 measured · 6 members
Egypt89.9%
Morocco53.5%Highest and lowest reading in Northern Africa.
- Southern Asia
69.5%
the middle country, of 8 measured · 9 members
Iran93.4%
Afghanistan33.4%Highest and lowest reading in Southern Asia.
- Eastern Africa
61.2%
the middle country, of 14 measured · 19 members
Zambia82.1%Somalia24.4%Highest and lowest reading in Eastern Africa.
- Western Africa
57.3%
the middle country, of 16 measured · 16 members
Ghana87.8%
Niger37.3%Highest and lowest reading in Western Africa.
- Middle Africa
51.2%
the middle country, of 7 measured · 9 members
Republic of the Congo79.0%Chad31.0%Highest and lowest reading in Middle Africa.
- Eastern Asia
3 of 8 measured — too few for a middle: China, Mongolia, North Korea.
North Korea93.7%
China92.9%Highest and lowest reading in Eastern Asia.
- Eastern Europe
2 of 10 measured — too few for a middle: Belarus, Romania.
Belarus99.9%Romania70.1%Highest and lowest reading in Eastern Europe.
- Melanesia
4 of 5 measured — too few for a middle: Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu.
Fiji88.7%Papua New Guinea49.0%Highest and lowest reading in Melanesia.
- Micronesia
2 of 7 measured — too few for a middle: Kiribati, Nauru.
Kiribati67.0%
Nauru50.7%Highest and lowest reading in Micronesia.
- Polynesia
3 of 7 measured — too few for a middle: Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu.
Tonga88.5%
Tuvalu60.3%Highest and lowest reading in Polynesia.
- Southern Africa
3 of 5 measured — too few for a middle: Eswatini, Lesotho, South Africa.
Lesotho81.9%
Eswatini73.5%Highest and lowest reading in Southern Africa.
03The whole field at once
The spread
119 countries, one dot each, on one scale — further right is a higher value. Half the countries are above 79.0%; a quarter are above 89.6%, and a quarter below 61.2%. The bar in each row marks that continent’s middle country.
04All 153 ever measured
Every country
In order, highest value first. “=” marks a position shared with another country. UNICEF ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. The figures come from household surveys that high-income countries rarely run, so most of them have no current reading and the table mostly compares low- and middle-income countries. A visit counts whatever the provider's training, and the World Health Organization now recommends at least eight contacts, not four.
Showing 25 of 153 countries
Values for the 2025 edition.
05In this edition
Antenatal care (four or more visits) in records
The extremes of the statistic. A record reached by more than one country names none of them.
Highest reading
99.9%
Women with a live birth who had 4+ antenatal visits (%)
Lowest reading
24.4%
Women with a live birth who had 4+ antenatal visits (%)
06The measure
About antenatal care (four or more visits)
This is the share of women who gave birth and were seen at least four times during pregnancy by a health provider. Antenatal visits are when problems such as high blood pressure, anaemia and infection are caught, and they are the companion to having a skilled attendant at the birth itself.
What the number is: Women with a live birth who had 4+ antenatal visits (%).
07Where it fits
Connections
Its part in the Country Index, the statistics whose values line up most closely with it across countries, and others on the same subject.
In the Country Index
Context, with no vote
This statistic is published in full under Health & Wellbeing and Gender & Equality, but does not help decide any Country Index standing.
Health & WellbeingGender & EqualityWhich statistics vote, and why
Moves with
Where antenatal care (four or more visits) is higher, these tend to be higher too.
- Human Capital IndexWorld Bank Group · 105 countries in commonρ 0.79
- Learning-Adjusted Years of SchoolWorld Bank Group · 105 countries in commonρ 0.78
- Human Development IndexKeyUNDP Human Development Report Office · 116 countries in commonρ 0.77
Moves against
Where antenatal care (four or more visits) is higher, these tend to be lower.
- Global Multidimensional Poverty IndexOPHI · 99 countries in commonρ −0.75
- Stillbirth RateUN IGME · 119 countries in commonρ −0.73
- Crude Birth RateUN DESA Population Division · 119 countries in commonρ −0.73
Rank correlation (ρ, from −1 to 1) across countries, on each statistic’s newest edition, out of 257 statistics sharing at least 80 countries with this one. Two statistics that move together do not cause each other.
08Keep reading
Explore further
The subject
The data, edition by edition
09Questions
Antenatal care (four or more visits): questions and answers
Which country has the highest antenatal care (four or more visits)?
Belarus, at 99.9%, among the 119 countries compared in the 2025 edition.
Which country has the lowest antenatal care (four or more visits)?
Somalia, at 24.4%, among the 119 countries compared in the 2025 edition.
How many countries does the Antenatal Care Coverage, At Least Four Visits cover?
119 in the 2025 edition, and 153 at least once across all editions.
What is the world average antenatal care (four or more visits)?
This site does not calculate a world average, which would depend on how countries are weighted. In the middle country of the 119 compared in the 2025 edition, the figure was 79.0%.
Is this UNICEF’s own ranking?
No. UNICEF publishes the values but ranks nobody; the position on this page is derived by Nations Inquiry by ordering the published values, and equal values share a position.
How often is the Antenatal Care Coverage, At Least Four Visits published?
This site holds one edition, describing 2025.
Where does the data come from, and can I download it?
From UNICEF, under CC BY 3.0 IGO. From UNICEF's Maternal and Newborn Health Coverage Database, read from UNICEF's own data warehouse. Where a country has several surveys, UNICEF's own priority flag decides which is used. Every edition is on this site’s Datasets pages as a full table, and downloads as a CSV file with every value unrounded.
10Method
Sources, method and citation
Source
Antenatal Care Coverage, At Least Four Visits — UNICEF
From UNICEF's Maternal and Newborn Health Coverage Database, read from UNICEF's own data warehouse. Where a country has several surveys, UNICEF's own priority flag decides which is used.
Newest edition
Report year 2025Data year not recorded
Cite the source as: UNICEF. Maternal and Newborn Health Coverage Database. New York: UNICEF.
Licence: CC BY 3.0 IGO, checked 2026-09-29.
How this page reads the numbers
- UNICEF ranks nobody on this measure. The position is derived by Nations Inquiry by ordering the published values; equal values share a position.
- Which end is better follows the publisher’s own reading of the measure.
- A country is named at an end only when it holds that value alone. Where several share it, the page says how many and names none first.
- The file gives each country’s most recent reading, so the rows are from different years. Readings from before 2015 are listed but left out of every comparison on this page.
- Values are stored exactly as published and trimmed only for display. “The middle country” is the median of the countries measured, not a world average.
The file itself, column by column — where it came from, what each column holds, and every edition as a CSV — is on its dataset page.
Photographs
The countries at the top of this statistic, from their profiles: Wikimedia Commons, shown in greyscale, each used under the licence named.
- Belarus — zedlik , cropped by Jjtkk, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Qatar — Haakon S. Krohn derivative work: JamesA, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Malaysia — Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 3.0
Cite this page
Nations Inquiry (2026). Antenatal care (four or more visits) by country: Antenatal Care Coverage, At Least Four Visits, data from UNICEF. https://nationsinquiry.com/statistics/antenatal-care