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Algeria |
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Angola |
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Benin |
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Botswana |
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Burkina Faso |
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Burundi |
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Cameroon |
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Cape Verde |
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Central African Republic |
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Chad |
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Comoros |
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Congo |
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Côte d’Ivoire |
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Djibouti |
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DRC |
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Egypt |
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Equatorial Guinea |
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Eritrea |
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Eswatini |
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Ethiopia |
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Gabon |
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Gambia |
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Ghana |
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Guinea |
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Guinea-Bissau |
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Kenya |
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Lesotho |
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Liberia |
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Libya |
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Madagascar |
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Malawi |
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Mali |
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Mauritania |
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Mauritius |
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Morocco |
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Mozambique |
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Namibia |
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Niger |
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Nigeria |
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Rwanda |
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SADR |
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São Tomé and Príncipe |
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Senegal |
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Seychelles |
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Sierra Leone |
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Somalia |
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South Africa |
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South Sudan |
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Sudan |
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Tanzania |
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Togo |
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Tunisia |
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Uganda |
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Zambia |
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Zimbabwe |
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Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health |
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Life expectancy at birth |
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Maternal mortality ratio |
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Stillbirth rate |
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Neonatal mortality rate |
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Infant mortality rate |
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Under 5 mortality rate |
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Antenatal care coverage: 4+ visits |
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Antenatal care coverage: 8+ visits |
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Births attended by skilled health personnel |
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Postpartum care coverage for mothers |
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Postnatal care coverage for newborns |
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Exclusive breastfeeding for infants under 6 months |
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Coverage of first dose of measles vaccination |
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Stunting - short height for age under age 5 |
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Wasting – low weight for height under age 5 |
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Overweight - heavy for height under 5 |
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Sexual and Reproductive Health |
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Child marriage before age 15 |
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Child marriage before age 18 |
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Female genital mutilation |
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Sexual violence by age 18 - female |
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Sexual violence by age 18 - male |
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Very early child bearing under age 16 |
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Adolescent birth rate ages 15 to 19 |
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Contraceptive prevalance rate, modern methods, all women |
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Demand satisfied for modern contraception |
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Communicable Diseases |
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New HIV infections |
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Antiretroviral treatment coverage |
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Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV |
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Condom use |
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New TB infections |
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New malaria infections |
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Non-Communicable Diseases |
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Mortality from non-communicable diseases |
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Suicide mortality rate |
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Current tobacco use among females aged 15 and over |
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Current tobacco use among males aged 15 and over |
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Harmful alcohol use aged 15 and over |
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Health Financing |
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External health expenditure as % current health expenditure |
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Government health expenditure as % current health expenditure |
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Government health expenditure as % GDP |
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Government health expenditure as % general govt expenditure |
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Government health expenditure per capita |
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Out-of-pocket health expenditure as % of current health expenditure |
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Percentage of national health budget allocated for reproductive health |
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Health systems and policies |
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Density of health workers - physicians |
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Density of health workers - nurses and midwives |
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Density of health workers - pharmaceutical staff |
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Qualified obstetricians |
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Birth registration |
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At least basic drinking water |
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At least basic sanitation services |
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Open defecation |
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Implementation of AMRH Initiative |
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The following countries had no data: |
Antenatal care coverage (at least 8 contacts) is the percentage of women aged 15 to 49 with a live birth in a given time period that received antenatal care eight or more times. Available survey data on this indicator usually do not specify the type of the provider; therefore, in general, receipt of care by any provider is measured.
Antenatal visits present opportunities for reaching pregnant women with interventions that may be vital to their health and well-being and that of their infants. Antenatal care visits should include: blood pressure measurement; urine testing for bacteriuria and proteinuria; blood testing to detect syphilis and severe anaemia and weight/height measurement (optional). ANC visits increase the likelihood that any problems will be spotted earlier in the pregnancy and dealt with before they become life threatening. ANC coverage is a good general indicator of access to healthcare services during pregnancy. In 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended a new model of 8 ANC contacts (previously 4 ANC visits) during a woman's pregnancy to reduce perinatal mortality and improve women’s experience of care.
Sources of data for this indicator are household surveys, specifically the Demographic and Health Surveys or the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys. Women are asked if their heath was checked during pregnancy and how many times. This indicator is based on standard questions asking women about care given by any provider, but do not specify the type of provider for each visit. The data here has been analysed through the African Union Commission’s Technical Working Group of the for the African Health Stats web platform.
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More about indicator and sources
WHO recommendations on antenatal care for a positive pregnancy experience' were released in 2016 outlining a new model of 8 ANC contacts during a woman's pregnancy. As countries are still working to implement this new guidance and mechanisms to track progress towards achieving the new model, monitoring how many women have at least 4 ANC visits remains important. For more information about the new guidance, visit: http://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/publications/maternal_perinatal_health/anc-positive-pregnancy-experience/en/
Limitations to this indicator exist. Receiving antenatal care during pregnancy does not guarantee the receipt of interventions that are effective in improving maternal health. Receiving antenatal care eight times, increases the likelihood of receiving effective maternal health interventions during antenatal visits. Importantly, although the indicator for ‘at least one visit’ refers to visits with skilled health providers (doctor, nurse or midwife), ‘four or more visits’ refers to visits with any provider, since standardized global national-level household survey programmes do not collect provider data for each visit. In addition, standardization of the definition of skilled health personnel is sometimes difficult because of differences in training of health personnel in different countries.
For more information, visit UNICEF Data: https://data.unicef.org/topic/maternal-health/antenatal-care/
More information on calculations
The data here have been analysed with oversight from the Technical Working Group of the African Health Stats web platform.
The sources of data for this indicator are household surveys, specifically the US Agency for International Development–supported Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) or UNICEF-supported Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS). MICS asks women questions about the antenatal care for their last birth in the previous two years whereas DHS asks women about their last birth in the previous five years.
For this analysis, data were taken mostly from the DHS; for some countries, data were taken from from MICS in the following countries: Algeria, Botswana, Central African Republic, Djibouti, Eritrea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Libya, Mauritania, South Sudan, Sudan and Tunisia. All other values shown are from DHS.
To access the original data, go to:
DHS Program https://dhsprogram.com/data/
UNICEF MICS http://mics.unicef.org/
