Descriptive analysis of 23 countries with a DHS or MICS since 2015
Among all live births* | Among all facility-based live births* | |||||||
Country | Survey type | Year | Percentage SBA coverage from DHS/MICS report† | Percentage in health facilities | Percentage reporting >1 delivery attendant | Percentage deliveries with doctor/ nurse/ midwife | Percentage deliveries with other personnel | Percentage deliveries with relative or no one |
Afghanistan | DHS | 2015 | 50.5 | 48.1 | 23.6 | 88.6 | 11.3 | 0.1 |
Angola | DHS | 2015 | 49.6 | 45.6 | 10.1 | 97.9 | 1.5 | 0.6 |
Armenia | DHS | 2016 | 99.8 | 99.3 | 52.2 | 99.9 | 0.0 | 0.1 |
Burundi | DHS | 2016 | 85.1 | 83.9 | 9.9 | 99.5 | 0.4 | 0.0 |
Colombia | DHS | 2015 | 95.9 | 83.3 | 77.7 | 99.3 | 0.4 | 0.3 |
Ethiopia | DHS | 2016 | 27.7 | 26.2 | 20.3 | 92.7 | 6.9 | 0.4 |
Guatemala | DHS | 2015 | 65.5 | 65.0 | 51.8 | 99.9 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
India | DHS | 2015 | 81.4 | 78.9 | 44.6 | 97.2 | 2.5 | 0.3 |
Kazakhstan | MICS | 2015 | 99.4 | 99.3 | 65.4 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Malawi | DHS | 2016 | 89.8 | 91.4 | 7.2 | 97.4 | 2.0 | 0.7 |
Mali | MICS | 2015 | 43.7 | 64.6 | 8.5 | 65.3 | 34.5 | 0.3 |
Mexico | MICS | 2015 | 97.7 | 96.9 | 56.4 | 99.9 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
Myanmar | DHS | 2015 | 60.2 | 37.1 | 36.4 | 99.2 | 0.8 | 0.0 |
Nepal | DHS | 2016 | 58.0 | 57.4 | 57.4 | 96.3 | 2.4 | 1.2 |
Nigeria | MICS | 2016 | 43.0 | 37.5 | 25.1 | 91.3 | 8.2 | 0.5 |
Paraguay | MICS | 2016 | 95.5 | 93.2 | 66.8 | 92.4 | 7.5 | 0.1 |
Rwanda | DHS | 2014 | 90.7 | 90.7 | 18.9 | 99.9 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
Senegal | DHS | 2015 | 53.2 | 74.5 | 27.7 | 70.4 | 29.5 | 0.1 |
Tanzania | DHS | 2015 | 63.7 | 62.6 | 20.5 | 94.2 | 5.6 | 0.2 |
Timor Leste | DHS | 2015 | 56.7 | 48.5 | 16.2 | 97.6 | 2.1 | 0.3 |
Turkmenistan | MICS | 2015 | 100.0 | 99.4 | 91.4 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Uganda | DHS | 2016 | 74.2 | 73.4 | 10.2 | 97.4 | 2.4 | 0.3 |
Zimbabwe | DHS | 2015 | 78.1 | 77.0 | 16.5 | 99.5 | 0.3 | 0.2 |
see online online supplementary appendix 2 for methods.
*Denominator used was all live births in the past 5 years for DHS and most recent live birth in past 2 years for MICS.
†SBA coverage extracted from each country’s DHS/MICS report.
DHS, Demographic and Health Surveys; MICS, Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys; SBA, skilled birth attendant.