‘Clean Care is Safer Care’ participating countries situational analysis, 2017–2018 (N = 88): results of the six core components of infection prevention and control programmes stratified by the World Bank income level classification. Bars and whiskers indicate the overall percentage of ‘Yes’ responses with 95% confidence intervals. High-income (N = 30); upper-middle-income (N = 21); lower-middle-income (N = 17); low-income (N = 20). For Education and Training core component we calculated the percentage of countries that reported having all three types of IPC training (i.e. undergraduate, in-service, and postgraduate training). IPC, infection prevention and control; MMIS, multi-modal improvement strategy.