UNICEF · Care-Seeking for Children with Symptoms of Pneumonia
Care-seeking for childhood pneumonia by country
What share of young children with pneumonia symptoms are taken to a health worker?
Tunisia placed first of the 99 countries compared in the 2024 edition, at 99.1%, and Chad last, at 17.6%. In the middle country the figure was 65.2%. 28 readings from before 2014 are listed but not compared.
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Care-seeking for childhood pneumonia · the 2024 edition
Context statistic
Highest of 99Tunisia
99.1%01the 2024 edition · position · derived
Who leads
The three countries at the highest end of 99 compared, the three at the other end, and the first on each continent.
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2Photo: Marina Balasini & Juan Montiel from Argentina, Argentina · CC BY 2.0, greyscale
3Photo: zedlik , cropped by Jjtkk · CC BY-SA 3.0, greyscale
02Every measured country
Care-seeking for childhood pneumonia 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.
- 17.6–46.4%
- 47.0–59.6%
- 59.7–70.3%
- 70.7–79.5%
- 80.3–99.1%
- Hatched: a reading from before 2014, listed but not compared (28)
- No reading in the 2024 edition
- Oceania
74.2%
the middle country, of 6 measured · 21 members
Kiribati86.5%
Nauru44.4%Highest and lowest reading in Oceania.
- Americas
71.9%
the middle country, of 16 measured · 48 members
Argentina94.2%
Haiti35.4%Highest and lowest reading in Americas.
- Asia
70.1%
the middle country, of 27 measured · 52 members
Armenia91.7%
Yemen35.0%Highest and lowest reading in Asia.
- Africa
58.5%
the middle country, of 47 measured · 55 members
Tunisia99.1%
Chad17.6%Highest and lowest reading in Africa.
- Europe
3 of 49 measured — too few for a middle: Albania, Belarus, Kosovo.
Belarus92.8%
Kosovo73.1%Highest and lowest reading in Europe.
- Every region
18 sub-regions, highest middle country first
- South America
83.7%
the middle country, of 7 measured · 12 members
Argentina94.2%
Peru56.9%Highest and lowest reading in South America.
- South-eastern Asia
72.6%
the middle country, of 9 measured · 11 members
Malaysia91.6%
Myanmar58.6%Highest and lowest reading in South-eastern Asia.
- Central America
68.8%
the middle country, of 6 measured · 8 members
Costa Rica80.3%
Guatemala52.0%Highest and lowest reading in Central America.
- Northern Africa
67.4%
the middle country, of 6 measured · 6 members
Tunisia99.1%
Algeria47.0%Highest and lowest reading in Northern Africa.
- Western Asia
66.8%
the middle country, of 6 measured · 19 members
Armenia91.7%Yemen35.0%Highest and lowest reading in Western Asia.
- Eastern Africa
61.9%
the middle country, of 14 measured · 19 members
Zambia82.4%
Somalia22.5%Highest and lowest reading in Eastern Africa.
- Southern Asia
54.5%
the middle country, of 8 measured · 9 members
Pakistan71.1%
Afghanistan45.3%Highest and lowest reading in Southern Asia.
- Western Africa
53.8%
the middle country, of 16 measured · 16 members
Burkina Faso77.4%
Mali27.0%Highest and lowest reading in Western Africa.
- Middle Africa
36.1%
the middle country, of 8 measured · 9 members
São Tomé and Príncipe82.4%Chad17.6%Highest and lowest reading in Middle Africa.
- Caribbean
3 of 24 measured — too few for a middle: Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti.
Cuba89.6%Haiti35.4%Highest and lowest reading in Caribbean.
- Central Asia
2 of 5 measured — too few for a middle: Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan.
Tajikistan82.2%
Kyrgyzstan59.7%Highest and lowest reading in Central Asia.
- Eastern Asia
2 of 8 measured — too few for a middle: Mongolia, North Korea.
Mongolia90.6%
North Korea85.6%Highest and lowest reading in Eastern Asia.
- Eastern Europe
1 of 10 measured — too few for a middle: Belarus.
Belarus92.8%Highest and lowest reading in Eastern Europe.
- Melanesia
3 of 5 measured — too few for a middle: Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu.
Solomon Islands79.0%
Papua New Guinea62.6%Highest and lowest reading in Melanesia.
- Micronesia
2 of 7 measured — too few for a middle: Kiribati, Nauru.
Kiribati86.5%Nauru44.4%Highest and lowest reading in Micronesia.
- Polynesia
1 of 7 measured — too few for a middle: Samoa.
Samoa72.4%Highest and lowest reading in Polynesia.
- Southern Africa
3 of 5 measured — too few for a middle: Eswatini, Lesotho, South Africa.
South Africa65.7%
Lesotho58.8%Highest and lowest reading in Southern Africa.
- Southern Europe
2 of 17 measured — too few for a middle: Albania, Kosovo.
Albania81.8%Kosovo73.1%Highest and lowest reading in Southern Europe.
03The whole field at once
The spread
99 countries, one dot each, on one scale — further right is a higher value. Half the countries are above 65.2%; a quarter are above 76.6%, and a quarter below 51.8%. The bar in each row marks that continent’s middle country.
04All 127 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 symptoms are reported by mothers, so this counts suspected pneumonia rather than diagnosed cases, and the group of children it is measured on is small. These surveys are run mainly in low- and middle-income countries, so most wealthy countries are absent.
Showing 25 of 127 countries
Values for the 2024 edition.
05In this edition
Care-seeking for childhood pneumonia in records
The extremes of the statistic. A record reached by more than one country names none of them.
Highest reading
99.1%
Children under 5 with pneumonia symptoms taken to a health provider (%)
Lowest reading
17.6%
Children under 5 with pneumonia symptoms taken to a health provider (%)
06The measure
About care-seeking for childhood pneumonia
This is the share of young children with signs of pneumonia — a cough with fast or difficult breathing — who were taken to a health worker or facility. Pneumonia is the largest infectious killer of children under five, and prompt care, usually a course of antibiotics, is what prevents those deaths.
What the number is: Children under 5 with pneumonia symptoms taken to a health provider (%).
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, but does not help decide any Country Index standing.
Moves with
Where care-seeking for childhood pneumonia is higher, these tend to be higher too.
- Institutional DeliveriesUNICEF · 95 countries in commonρ 0.59
- Postnatal Care for Newborns Within Two DaysUNICEF · 87 countries in commonρ 0.58
- Productive Capacities IndexUNCTAD · 96 countries in commonρ 0.53
Moves against
Where care-seeking for childhood pneumonia is higher, these tend to be lower.
- Gender Inequality IndexUNDP Human Development Report Office · 92 countries in commonρ −0.61
- Maternal Mortality RatioKeyMMEIG · 98 countries in commonρ −0.56
- Children's Climate Risk IndexUNICEF · 90 countries in commonρ −0.56
Rank correlation (ρ, from −1 to 1) across countries, on each statistic’s newest edition, out of 262 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
Care-seeking for childhood pneumonia: questions and answers
Which country has the highest care-seeking for childhood pneumonia?
Tunisia, at 99.1%, among the 99 countries compared in the 2024 edition.
Which country has the lowest care-seeking for childhood pneumonia?
Chad, at 17.6%, among the 99 countries compared in the 2024 edition.
How many countries does the Care-Seeking for Children with Symptoms of Pneumonia cover?
99 in the 2024 edition, and 127 at least once across all editions.
What is the world average care-seeking for childhood pneumonia?
This site does not calculate a world average, which would depend on how countries are weighted. In the middle country of the 99 compared in the 2024 edition, the figure was 65.2%.
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 Care-Seeking for Children with Symptoms of Pneumonia published?
This site holds one edition, describing 2024.
Where does the data come from, and can I download it?
From UNICEF, under CC BY 3.0 IGO. From UNICEF's child health coverage database, compiled from household surveys and 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
Care-Seeking for Children with Symptoms of Pneumonia — UNICEF
From UNICEF's child health coverage database, compiled from household surveys and 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 2024Data year not recorded
Cite the source as: UNICEF. Child Health Coverage Database. New York: UNICEF.
Licence: CC BY 3.0 IGO, checked 2026-10-03.
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 2014 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.
- Tunisia — Rais67, CC0
- Argentina — Marina Balasini & Juan Montiel from Argentina, Argentina, CC BY 2.0
- Belarus — zedlik , cropped by Jjtkk, CC BY-SA 3.0
Cite this page
Nations Inquiry (2026). Care-seeking for childhood pneumonia by country: Care-Seeking for Children with Symptoms of Pneumonia, data from UNICEF. https://nationsinquiry.com/statistics/pneumonia-care-seeking