Table 2.
Age patterns of institutional delivery coverage according to UNICEF regions, World Bank country income group and tertiles of national coverage
| N | Increase with age N (%) |
Inverse U-shaped N (%) |
U-shaped N (%) |
Decline with age N (%) |
Similar coverage N (%) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UNICEF region | ||||||
| West & Central Africa | 23 | 0 (0.0) | 4 (17.4) | 1 (4.4) | 11 (47.8) | 7 (30.4) |
| Eastern & Southern Africa | 15 | 0 (0.0) | 1 (6.7) | 0 (0.0) | 13 (80.0) | 2 (13.3) |
| Middle East & North Africa | 7 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (14.3) | 6 (85.7) |
| South Asia | 6 | 0 (0.0) | 1 (16.7) | 0 (0.0) | 4 (66.6) | 1 (16.7) |
| East Asia & Pacific | 9 | 0 (0.0) | 4 (44.5) | 0 (0.0) | 3 (33.3) | 2 (22.2) |
| Europe & Central Asia | 13 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (15.4) | 11 (84.6) |
| Latin America & Caribbean | 16 | 0 (0.0) | 3 (18.7) | 0 (0.0) | 7 (37.5) | 7 (43.8) |
| World Bank income group | ||||||
| Low income | 28 | 0 (0.0) | 3 (10.7) | 1 (3.6) | 20 (71.4) | 4 (14.3) |
| Lower middle income | 37 | 0 (0.0) | 8 (21.6) | 0 (0.0) | 17 (46.0) | 12 (32.4) |
| Upper middle income | 24 | 0 (0.0) | 2 (8.3) | 0 (0.0) | 3 (12.5) | 19 (79.2) |
| National coverage of Institutional delivery | ||||||
| First tertile (range: 11.7–63.6) | 30 | 0 (0.0) | 6 (20.0) | 1 (3.3) | 17 (56.7) | 6 (20.0) |
| Second tertile (range: 64.5–91.5) | 30 | 0 (0.0) | 6 (20.0) | 0 (0.0) | 18 (60.0) | 6 (20.0) |
| Third tertile (range: 92.3–99.9) | 29 | 0 (0.0) | 2 (6.9) | 0 (0.0) | 4 (13.8) | 23 (79.3) |
| Total | 89 | 0 (0.0) | 14 (15.7) | 1 (1.1) | 39 (43.8) | 35 (39.3) |