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Skilled Birth Attendance by African country

2022

Share of live births attended by skilled health personnel (doctors, nurses or midwives).

Africa, 20221 of 54 countries
50.7%population-weighted average
Highest in 2022Nigeria · 50.7%Lowest in 2022Nigeria · 50.7%Reported in 20221 of 54 countries surveyed
Click a country to pin it — pinned countries are named on the map. Hatching means no record.
Western Sahara — no separate recordTanzania — no dataDemocratic Republic of the Congo — no dataSomalia — no dataKenya — no dataSudan — no dataChad — no dataSouth Africa — no dataLesotho — no dataZimbabwe — no dataBotswana — no dataNamibia — no dataSenegal — no dataMali — no dataMauritania — no dataBenin — no dataNiger — no dataNigeria — 50.7%Cameroon — no dataTogo — no dataGhana — no dataCote d'Ivoire — no dataGuinea — no dataGuinea-Bissau — no dataLiberia — no dataSierra Leone — no dataBurkina Faso — no dataCentral African Republic — no dataRepublic of the Congo — no dataGabon — no dataEquatorial Guinea — no dataZambia — no dataMalawi — no dataMozambique — no dataEswatini — no dataAngola — no dataBurundi — no dataMadagascar — no dataGambia — no dataTunisia — no dataAlgeria — no dataEritrea — no dataMorocco — no dataEgypt — no dataLibya — no dataEthiopia — no dataDjibouti — no dataUganda — no dataRwanda — no dataSouth Sudan — no dataNigeria 50.7%Nigeria 50.7%EthiopiaEthiopiaKenyaKenyaSouth AfricaSouth Africa2022HIGHEST IN 2022Nigeria50.7%LOWEST IN 2022Nigeria50.7%PINNEDEthiopiano dataKenyano dataSouth Africano dataOTHER ISLAND STATES · NOT DRAWNCabo Verdenot drawnno dataComorosnot drawnno dataMauritiusnot drawnno dataSao Tome and Principenot drawnno dataSeychellesnot drawnno data% of population · quintiles of the observed range50.7%50.7%50.7%50.7%50.7%50.7%no record
20142024
World Bank · national statistics offices · the provider's own estimates where a country has not reportedCC BY 4.0
Countries

By region

Population-weighted, so a region’s figure is the share of its people, not the average of its countries.
Western Africa1 of 16 countries50.7%
Northern Africa0 of 6 countries—
Eastern Africa0 of 18 countries—
Middle Africa0 of 9 countries—
Southern Africa0 of 5 countries—
Africaall 54 countries · 1 with a 2022 figure50.7%

What to know before you quote this

Specific to this series. For how we treat data generally, see methods.
54 countries have no usable 2024 recordNot a low value — no figure within the window. Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso and 49 more are hatched on the map and blank in the table.
Certainty is judged year by yearA country can be Reported in one year and Modelled the next. The tag follows the year on the scrubber, so the 2024 assessment is not a verdict on the whole series.

About this data

Skilled Birth AttendanceShare of live births attended by skilled health personnel (doctors, nurses or midwives).
SourceWorld Bank, with processing by Africa API
Unit% of population
Last updated15 Oct 2026
Next expected updateOct 2027
Date range1984–2022
Coverage1 of 54 countries · 1 reported, 0 modelled, 53 with no usable figure

How the figure is made

ReportedA national statistics office or the original provider published the figure for that year directly. 1 countries did so for 2022 — the certainty shown on this page is that 2022 assessment, not a per-series one.ModelledNo direct figure that year. The provider’s own estimate, interpolation or projection stands in, and is marked as such wherever it appears.No dataNo usable figure within the window. Drawn hatched on the map and left blank in the table — not zero, and not filled in.

These three states are used the same way across every indicator on the site — how we treat certainty explains the full set and what we never do to a number.

Reuse and cite

Everything on this page is open under CC BY 4.0 — use it anywhere, including commercially, as long as Africa API and the original provider are credited. The provider’s own licence still applies to their data.

How to cite this page
Africa API (2026) — "Skilled Birth Attendance". Data adapted from World Bank. Retrieved 18 Oct 2026 from africa-api.com/indicators/skilled-birth-attendance
The request behind this view
GET /v1/data?metric_key=skilled_birth_attendance_pct&year=2022&limit=100

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Skilled Birth Attendance, country by country

47 countries carry a figure

Each country has its own page for this indicator, with the full history, the source and the API request.

AlgeriaAngolaBeninBotswanaBurkina FasoBurundiCabo VerdeCameroonCentral African RepublicChadCote d'IvoireDemocratic Republic of the CongoEgyptEswatiniEthiopiaGambiaGhanaGuineaGuinea-BissauKenyaLesothoLiberiaMadagascarMalawiMaliMauritaniaMauritiusMoroccoMozambiqueNigerNigeriaRepublic of the CongoRwandaSao Tome and PrincipeSenegalSeychellesSierra LeoneSomaliaSouth AfricaSouth SudanSudanTanzaniaTogoTunisiaUgandaZambiaZimbabwe

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