Assistance during delivery (any skilled personnel) (% of births): Q3 by country
Assistance during delivery (Assisted births): Percentage of live births in the three (one, two) years preceding the survey attended by any skilled personnel and by a doctor. The DHS surveys refer births in the three years preceding the survey, the MICS2 surveys refer births in the one year preceding the survey,...
What the numbers show
Assistance during delivery (any skilled personnel) (% of births): Q3 is currently reported for 42 countries. The highest value is 100.0% in Kyrgyzstan; the lowest is 17.2% in Burkina Faso.
The median across all reporting countries is 85.0%, and the mean is 77.9%.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 6.
Over the past decade 37 countries rose and 5 fell. The largest increase was in Bangladesh (up 355.4%), and the largest decrease in Togo (down 34.4%).
Assistance during delivery (any skilled personnel) (% of births): Q3: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kyrgyzstan | 100.0% | 2018 | up 2.9% | flat |
| 2 | Jordan | 99.8% | 2018 | up 0.3% | rising |
| 3 | Viet Nam | 99.7% | 2014 | up 4.8% | rising |
| 4 | Kazakhstan | 99.6% | 2015 | down 0.4% | flat |
| 5 | Dominican Republic | 99.4% | 2014 | up 0.3% | flat |
| 5 | Mongolia | 99.4% | 2018 | up 0.7% | flat |
| 7 | Colombia | 99.3% | 2015 | up 1.3% | rising |
| 8 | Türkiye | 99.2% | 2013 | up 7.4% | rising |
| 9 | Peru | 97.5% | 2012 | up 18.5% | rising |
| 10 | Indonesia | 96.0% | 2017 | up 19.9% | rising |
| 11 | Rwanda | 95.0% | 2020 | up 25.0% | volatile |
| 12 | Egypt | 94.7% | 2014 | up 25.9% | rising |
| 13 | Philippines | 94.2% | 2017 | up 19.4% | rising |
| 14 | India | 93.2% | 2021 | up 84.2% | rising |
| 15 | Malawi | 89.7% | 2016 | up 71.8% | rising |
| 16 | Senegal | 88.4% | 2019 | up 18.8% | rising |
| 17 | Sierra Leone | 88.2% | 2019 | up 135.8% | rising |
| 18 | Zimbabwe | 86.8% | 2019 | up 55.3% | rising |
| 19 | Congo, Democratic Republic of the | 86.1% | 2018 | up 14.2% | rising |
| 20 | Lesotho | 86.0% | 2018 | up 42.9% | rising |
| 21 | Gambia | 85.9% | 2020 | up 61.5% | rising |
| 22 | Zambia | 84.0% | 2018 | up 134.0% | rising |
| 23 | Bolivia, Plurinational State of | 83.3% | 2008 | up 18.2% | rising |
| 24 | Mauritania | 83.0% | 2021 | up 15.9% | rising |
| 25 | Benin | 81.1% | 2018 | down 1.0% | rising |
| 26 | Nepal | 80.5% | 2019 | up 212.0% | volatile |
| 27 | Cameroon | 80.0% | 2018 | up 24.6% | rising |
| 28 | Côte d'Ivoire | 79.4% | 2016 | up 35.3% | rising |
| 29 | Ghana | 77.4% | 2018 | up 16.6% | rising |
| 30 | Uganda | 73.4% | 2016 | up 102.2% | rising |
| 31 | Kenya | 66.6% | 2014 | up 82.0% | rising |
| 32 | Mali | 63.6% | 2018 | up 59.0% | volatile |
| 33 | Tanzania, United Republic of | 61.7% | 2016 | up 70.4% | rising |
| 34 | Bangladesh | 59.2% | 2019 | up 355.4% | volatile |
| 35 | Guinea | 53.2% | 2018 | up 100.0% | rising |
| 36 | Nigeria | 46.9% | 2018 | up 23.7% | rising |
| 37 | Haiti | 44.1% | 2017 | up 99.5% | rising |
| 38 | Madagascar | 43.2% | 2021 | up 1.6% | falling |
| 39 | Chad | 42.9% | 2019 | up 266.7% | volatile |
| 40 | Togo | 38.2% | 2014 | down 34.4% | falling |
| 41 | Central African Republic | 34.4% | 2019 | down 31.1% | flat |
| 42 | Burkina Faso | 17.2% | 2010 | down 29.5% | flat |
About this data
Assistance during delivery (Assisted births): Percentage of live births in the three (one, two) years preceding the survey attended by any skilled personnel and by a doctor. The DHS surveys refer births in the three years preceding the survey, the MICS2 surveys refer births in the one year preceding the survey, and the MICS3 surveys refer births in the two years preceding the survey.