Births attended by skilled health staff are the percentage of deliveries attended by personnel trained to give the necessary supervision, care, and advice to women during pregnancy, labor, and the postpartum period; to conduct deliveries on their own; and to care for newborns.
| 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algeria | 92.0 | 96.6 | 98.8 | |||||||||||||
| Djibouti | 87.4 | |||||||||||||||
| Egypt, Arab Rep. | 60.9 | 74.2 | 91.5 | 97.1 | ||||||||||||
| Libya | 99.9 | 99.9 | 99.9 | 99.9 | ||||||||||||
| Morocco | 74.1 | 73.6 | 86.6 | |||||||||||||
| Tunisia | 89.9 | 73.6 | 99.5 | |||||||||||||
| Angola | 49.6 | |||||||||||||||
| Benin | 75.0 | 80.9 | 77.2 | 78.1 | ||||||||||||
| Botswana | 98.5 | 94.0 | 99.1 | 99.8 | 99.8 | 99.9 | 99.5 | 99.7 | 99.7 | 99.8 | ||||||
| Burkina Faso | 65.9 | 79.8 | ||||||||||||||
| Burundi | 25.2 | 31.8 | 60.3 | 78.4 | 77.6 | 79.1 | 86.2 | 98.6 | 87.4 | 76.5 | ||||||
| Cabo Verde | 77.5 | 98.5 | 98.7 | 92.3 | 95.6 | 91.4 | 92.6 | 92.4 | 97.3 | |||||||
| Cameroon | 56.0 | 56.1 | 64.7 | 69.0 | ||||||||||||
| Central African Republic | 31.7 | 40.0 | 40.3 | |||||||||||||
| Chad | 13.7 | 16.6 | 24.3 | 47.2 | ||||||||||||
| Comoros | 61.8 | 82.2 | ||||||||||||||
| Congo, Rep. | 83.4 | 92.5 | 91.2 | |||||||||||||
| Cote d'Ivoire | 62.8 | 55.1 | 59.4 | 73.6 | 84.0 | |||||||||||
| Congo, Dem. Rep. | 74.1 | 80.1 | 85.2 | |||||||||||||
| Equatorial Guinea | 64.6 | 68.3 | ||||||||||||||
| Eritrea | 34.1 | |||||||||||||||
| Ethiopia | 5.6 | 5.7 | 10.0 | 23.1 | 15.5 | 27.7 | 49.8 | |||||||||
| Gabon | 82.6 | 89.3 | ||||||||||||||
| Ghana | 67.2 | 70.8 | 78.1 | 78.9 | ||||||||||||
| Guinea | 38.0 | 45.3 | 62.7 | 55.3 | ||||||||||||
| Guinea-Bissau | 31.8 | 43.0 | 45.0 | 53.8 | ||||||||||||
| Kenya | 42.6 | 61.8 | 70.2 | |||||||||||||
| Lesotho | 48.1 | 55.4 | 77.9 | 86.6 | ||||||||||||
| Liberia | 50.9 | 61.1 | 84.4 | |||||||||||||
| Madagascar | 47.0 | 44.3 | 46.1 | 45.8 | ||||||||||||
| Malawi | 55.6 | 56.1 | 71.4 | 87.4 | 89.8 | 96.4 | ||||||||||
| Mali | 28.1 | 58.6 | 43.7 | 67.3 | ||||||||||||
| Mauritania | 65.1 | 69.3 | 70.4 | |||||||||||||
| Mauritius | 91.1 | 99.7 | 99.2 | 99.5 | 99.5 | 99.6 | 99.7 | 99.7 | 99.8 | 99.7 | 99.8 | 99.8 | 99.8 | 99.7 | 99.7 | |
| Mozambique | 54.3 | 73.0 | ||||||||||||||
| Namibia | 75.5 | 88.2 | ||||||||||||||
| Niger | 15.7 | 29.3 | 39.7 | 39.1 | 43.7 | |||||||||||
| Nigeria | 32.0 | 47.3 | 35.2 | 43.0 | 43.3 | 50.7 | ||||||||||
| Rwanda | 31.3 | 38.6 | 69.0 | 69.0 | 90.7 | 94.2 | ||||||||||
| Sao Tome and Principe | 78.6 | 92.5 | 96.8 | |||||||||||||
| Senegal | 57.8 | 51.9 | 65.1 | 50.5 | 59.1 | 53.2 | 58.6 | 68.4 | 74.2 | 74.5 | ||||||
| Seychelles | 98.0 | 99.0 | 99.0 | 99.0 | 99.0 | 99.0 | 98.8 | 99.5 | ||||||||
| Sierra Leone | 37.1 | 40.0 | 60.8 | 59.7 | 81.6 | 86.9 | ||||||||||
| Somalia | 19.3 | 31.9 | ||||||||||||||
| South Africa | 96.7 | |||||||||||||||
| South Sudan | 19.4 | 39.7 | ||||||||||||||
| Sudan | 68.5 | 72.5 | 77.7 | |||||||||||||
| Eswatini | 65.4 | 82.0 | 88.3 | |||||||||||||
| Tanzania | 43.4 | 48.9 | 61.4 | 63.5 | ||||||||||||
| Gambia, The | 44.1 | 51.6 | 56.1 | 57.2 | 82.7 | 83.8 | ||||||||||
| Togo | 35.4 | 43.9 | 44.6 | 69.4 | ||||||||||||
| Uganda | 36.0 | 57.4 | 74.2 | |||||||||||||
| Zambia | 63.3 | 80.4 | 80.4 | |||||||||||||
| Zimbabwe | 66.2 | 80.0 | 78.1 | 86.0 |