Heatmap showing scores for six indicators of composite usage and equality of obstetric services in rural areas in countries with a recent Demographic and Health Survey, used to calculate a composite usage and equality (CUE) index, by country
| Country | Percentage rural facility births | Percentage rural hospital births | Percentage CS in rural women | Percentage of hospital births in rural women at high parity | Percentage point difference between wealthier and poorer women | Percentage point difference between wealthier and poorer women at high parity | CUE score | |
| Malawi | 92.3 | 29.5 | 5.2 | 23.4 | 6.2 | 3.3 | 29 | |
| Liberia | 76.9 | 16.4 | 4.0 | 14.4 | 2.5 | 3.9 | 25 | |
| Zimbabwe | 73.6 | 27.2 | 3.7 | 19.1 | 7.8 | 2.2 | 23 | |
| Gambia | 76.6 | 14.4 | 1.6 | 13.0 | 2.5 | 3.1 | 22 | |
| Rwanda | 93.9 | 27.7 | 12.8 | 20.5 | 10.9 | 13.2 | 22 | |
| Benin | 82.2 | 14.4 | 3.4 | 13.5 | 3.8 | 8.5 | 20 | |
| Sierra Leone | 80.7 | 16.5 | 2.9 | 15.8 | 7.8 | 5.5 | 20 | |
| Tanzania | 55.6 | 21.0 | 3.7 | 14.7 | 14.4 | 4.5 | 20 | |
| Burundi | 87.3 | 15.5 | 3.9 | 12.1 | 9.1 | 5.7 | 18 | |
| Senegal | 71.9 | 6.0 | 4.5 | 4.1 | 5.5 | 5.3 | 17 | |
| Uganda | 71.1 | 16.0 | 4.9 | 11.3 | 9.0 | 7.0 | 16 | |
| Mali | 60.6 | 1.5 | 1.7 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 1.3 | 15 | |
| Ethiopia | 41.3 | 6.2 | 4.0 | 3.4 | 6.3 | 1.7 | 15 | |
| Guinea | 40.2 | 4.3 | 1.4 | 3.0 | 2.7 | 2.1 | 14 | |
| Angola | 18.6 | 5.7 | 1.1 | 5.2 | 3.8 | 4.9 | 12 | |
| Zambia | 80.2 | 13.9 | 2.9 | 11.2 | 9.4 | 9.2 | 12 | |
| Nigeria | 26.8 | 8.4 | 1.2 | 6.2 | 8.5 | 6.4 | 8 | |
| Cameroon | 50.0 | 6.2 | 1.7 | 3.9 | 9.5 | 6.5 | 6 | |
| Median | 72.7 | 14.4 | 3.5 | 11.7 | 7.0 | 5.1 | ||
| Best performing (score 5) | ||||||||
| Performance ≤25% above median (score 4) | ||||||||
| Performance at median (score 3) | ||||||||
| Performance≤25% below median (score 2) | ||||||||
| Worst performing (score 1) | ||||||||
Countries are ordered by decreasing ranking of the CUE index score.
CS, births by ceaserean section.