Place of delivery (births at health facility) (% of births): Q2 by country

Place of delivery (Births at health facility): Percentage of live births in the three years preceding the survey which took place at health facility.

Countries reporting
36
Highest
99.4%
Colombia
Lowest
14.2%
Chad
Median
78.1%
Years covered
32
1990–2021
Data points
223

What the numbers show

Place of delivery (births at health facility) (% of births): Q2 is currently reported for 36 countries. The highest value is 99.4% in Colombia; the lowest is 14.2% in Chad.

The median across all reporting countries is 78.1%, and the mean is 71.5%.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 7.

Over the past decade 34 countries rose and 2 fell. The largest increase was in Ethiopia (up 1,229.0%), and the largest decrease in Kazakhstan (down 1.1%).

Place of delivery (births at health facility) (% of births): Q2: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Colombia 99.4% 2015 up 4.4% rising
2 Kyrgyzstan 99.3% 2018 up 0.6% flat
3 Turkey 99.0% 2013 up 31.1% rising
4 Kazakhstan 98.9% 2015 down 1.1% flat
4 Jordan 98.9% 2018 up 0.3% rising
6 Dominican Republic 98.4% 2014 down 1.0% flat
7 Vietnam 97.0% 2014 up 24.0% rising
8 Rwanda 91.7% 2020 up 27.4% volatile
9 Malawi 91.6% 2016 up 92.4% rising
10 India 89.1% 2021 up 252.2% volatile
11 Peru 87.2% 2012 up 106.6% rising
12 Zimbabwe 83.2% 2019 up 87.4% rising
13 Zambia 82.8% 2018 up 184.5% volatile
14 Gambia 82.6% 2020 up 76.1% rising
15 Sierra Leone 81.6% 2019 up 272.6% volatile
16 Egypt 81.1% 2014 up 64.5% rising
17 Benin 80.7% 2018 up 11.5% rising
18 Indonesia 78.4% 2017 up 120.8% volatile
19 Philippines 77.8% 2017 up 137.2% volatile
20 Senegal 75.7% 2019 up 17.5% rising
21 Nepal 72.8% 2019 up 226.5% volatile
22 Ghana 70.5% 2018 up 38.5% rising
23 Uganda 66.5% 2016 up 105.2% rising
24 Burkina Faso 62.4% 2010 up 174.9% rising
25 Cote d'Ivoire 62.1% 2016 up 65.6% rising
26 Mauritania 59.0% 2021 up 29.7% rising
27 Cameroon 57.7% 2018 up 95.6% rising
28 Mali 55.0% 2018 up 58.0% rising
29 Kenya 53.4% 2014 up 70.6% rising
30 Tanzania 51.6% 2016 up 39.1% rising
31 Guinea 42.5% 2018 up 154.5% rising
32 Bangladesh 41.3% 2019 up 624.6% volatile
33 Ethiopia 41.2% 2019 up 1,229.0% volatile
34 Haiti 26.7% 2017 up 138.4% volatile
35 Nigeria 22.7% 2018 up 45.5% rising
36 Chad 14.2% 2019 up 102.9% volatile

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Indicator
Place of delivery (births at health facility) (% of births): Q2
Source
Household Surveys (DHS, MICS)
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
36 places, 223 data points, 1990–2021
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Place of delivery (Births at health facility): Percentage of live births in the three years preceding the survey which took place at health facility.