Table 2.
Live births, antenatal and delivery care, and use of hepatitis B vaccine birth dose (HepB-BD)—World Health Organization South-East Asia Region, 2011–2015.
| Country | Live births (2015) [10] |
Women who received ≥ 1 antenatal care visit (%) [9] |
Institutional deliveries (%) [9] |
Births attended by skilled birth attendant (%) [9] |
Introduction of Hepatitis B vaccine birth dose (year) |
HepB-BD coverage per WUENIC (%) [7] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | ||||||
| Universal birth dose | ||||||||||
| Bhutan | 12,860 | 98 | 74 | 75 | 2011 [7] | 29 | 60 | 64 | 78 | 78 |
| DPR Korea | 344,435 | 100 | 95 | 100 | 2003 [7] | 99 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 97 |
| India | 27,420,000 | 74 | 79 | 52 | 2012 [16,17] | 8 | 23 | 37 | 41 | 44 |
| Indonesia | 4,893,435 | 95 | 70 | 87 | 2002 [14] | 80a | 80a | 84a | 86a | 82a |
| Maldives | 7233 | 99 | 95 | 96 | 2000 [7] | 98 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 99 |
| Thailand | 675,530 | 98 | 100 | 100 | 1992 [13] | 99 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 99 |
| Timor-Leste | 44,854 | 84 | 22 | 29 | 2016 | – | – | – | – | – |
| Selective birth dose | ||||||||||
| Myanmar | 1,023,892 | 83 | 36 | 71 | 2016 | – | – | – | – | – |
| No birth dose | ||||||||||
| Bangladesh | 3,228,362 | 64 | 37 | 42 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Nepal | 614,666 | 68 | 55 | 56 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Sri Lanka | 334,821 | 99 | 98 | 99 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| SEAR | 38,600,088 | 50 | 59b | 9 [8] | 19 [8] | 29 [8] | 32 [8] | 34 [8] | ||
HepB-BD: hepatitis B vaccine birth dose; SEAR: South-East Asia Region; WUENIC: WHO-UNICEF National Immunization Coverage estimates.
a
Coverage data for Indonesia comes from official country estimates http://apps.who.int/immunization_monitoring/globalsummary/.
b
World Health Organization. Health Service data by region. Available at: http://apps.who.int/gho/data/view.main.1610?lang=en [accessed 23 March 2017].