Assistance during delivery (doctor) (% of births): Q5 (highest) 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 (doctor) (% of births): Q5 (highest) is currently reported for 42 countries. The highest value is 98.4% in Viet Nam; the lowest is 4.4% in Chad.
The median across all reporting countries is 39.0%, and the mean is 49.6%.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 22.
Over the past decade 32 countries rose and 10 fell. The largest increase was in Mali (up 242.6%), and the largest decrease in Togo (down 26.9%).
Assistance during delivery (doctor) (% of births): Q5: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Viet Nam | 98.4% | 2014 | up 7.7% | rising |
| 2 | Egypt | 98.3% | 2014 | up 6.0% | rising |
| 3 | Bolivia, Plurinational State of | 97.9% | 2008 | up 0.4% | flat |
| 4 | Jordan | 97.0% | 2018 | up 3.3% | rising |
| 4 | Colombia | 97.0% | 2015 | down 1.8% | flat |
| 6 | Kyrgyzstan | 95.2% | 2018 | down 1.1% | rising |
| 7 | Türkiye | 95.0% | 2013 | up 19.5% | rising |
| 8 | Dominican Republic | 94.9% | 2014 | down 4.7% | flat |
| 9 | Kazakhstan | 91.8% | 2015 | up 2.6% | flat |
| 10 | Peru | 86.0% | 2012 | up 12.0% | rising |
| 11 | Philippines | 85.2% | 2017 | up 8.0% | rising |
| 12 | Nepal | 82.6% | 2019 | up 46.7% | rising |
| 13 | India | 82.1% | 2021 | up 3.7% | rising |
| 14 | Mongolia | 74.0% | 2018 | up 1.1% | rising |
| 15 | Bangladesh | 70.7% | 2019 | up 60.3% | rising |
| 16 | Indonesia | 57.0% | 2017 | up 61.5% | volatile |
| 17 | Haiti | 52.7% | 2017 | down 3.7% | rising |
| 18 | Kenya | 49.6% | 2014 | up 91.5% | rising |
| 19 | Lesotho | 44.8% | 2018 | up 92.3% | rising |
| 20 | Rwanda | 44.2% | 2020 | up 108.5% | volatile |
| 21 | Congo, Democratic Republic of the | 40.1% | 2018 | up 120.3% | rising |
| 22 | Cameroon | 37.8% | 2018 | up 13.5% | rising |
| 23 | Zimbabwe | 31.8% | 2019 | up 27.7% | rising |
| 24 | Mauritania | 31.1% | 2021 | up 22.9% | rising |
| 25 | Malawi | 30.9% | 2016 | up 215.3% | volatile |
| 25 | Ghana | 30.9% | 2018 | up 13.6% | rising |
| 27 | Nigeria | 28.1% | 2018 | down 10.5% | rising |
| 28 | Madagascar | 27.8% | 2021 | down 18.2% | rising |
| 29 | Tanzania, United Republic of | 26.5% | 2016 | up 145.4% | rising |
| 30 | Guinea | 24.5% | 2018 | up 34.6% | rising |
| 31 | Uganda | 21.6% | 2016 | up 74.2% | rising |
| 32 | Gambia | 20.8% | 2020 | up 112.2% | rising |
| 33 | Senegal | 20.3% | 2019 | up 23.8% | rising |
| 34 | Zambia | 20.1% | 2018 | up 103.0% | rising |
| 35 | Mali | 18.5% | 2018 | up 242.6% | volatile |
| 36 | Togo | 16.0% | 2014 | down 26.9% | rising |
| 37 | Benin | 14.7% | 2018 | down 7.0% | falling |
| 38 | Côte d'Ivoire | 14.6% | 2016 | up 73.8% | rising |
| 39 | Sierra Leone | 14.1% | 2019 | up 85.5% | rising |
| 40 | Central African Republic | 7.8% | 2019 | down 14.3% | rising |
| 41 | Burkina Faso | 5.0% | 2010 | up 85.2% | falling |
| 42 | Chad | 4.4% | 2019 | down 10.2% | rising |
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.