Finland's births attended by skilled health staff (% of total) was 99.5% in 2021, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 0.3 percentage points from 99.8% in 2011.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 99.5% | 2021 |
| Five years earlier | 99.6% | 2016 |
| Ten years earlier | 99.8% | 2011 |
| Highest | 99.9% | 2000 |
| Lowest | 98.3% | 1998 |
| Average since 2012 | 99.63% | 2012–2021 |
| First recorded | 98.8% | 1990 |
What the numbers say
In 2021, Finland's births attended by skilled health staff (% of total) fell 0.1 percentage points on 2020 (from 99.6% to 99.5%).
Across the 28 yearly changes before that (1993 to 2020), the average change was +0.04 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.29 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.5 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 1.5 percentage points in 2000 and the biggest yearly fall was 0.1 percentage points in 1998. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2012 to 2021 the straight-line trend is downward, about 0.03 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 83% of the movement over 10 observed years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
A straight-line projection, tested first
Extending that straight line gives about 99.42% for 2024. We show this only because the same method, fitted on earlier years, predicted 2019 to 2021 better than "no change" would have: its average miss was 0.05%, against 0.07% for assuming no change. Treat it as a continuation of the recent pattern, not a forecast of events: it cannot see a recession, a policy change or a revision to the data.
See how a linear trend forecast works and the guide on forecasting without fooling yourself.
How it compares
In 2021, Finland had the 13th highest value of the 20 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
Closest to Finland in the 2021 ranking
What this measures
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.
Limitations: For the indicators that are from household surveys, the year refers to the survey year. For more information, consult the original sources.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 31 values
| Year | Births attended by skilled health staff (% of total) |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 99.5 |
| 2020 | 99.6 |
| 2019 | 99.5 |
| 2018 | 99.6 |
| 2017 | 99.6 |
| 2016 | 99.6 |
| 2015 | 99.7 |
| 2014 | 99.7 |
| 2013 | 99.7 |
| 2012 | 99.8 |
| 2011 |
Births attended by skilled health staff (% of total) in nearby economies
- Albania — 99.8% (2018)
- Armenia — 99.8% (2016)
- Austria — 98.1% (2020)
- Azerbaijan — 99.9% (2021)
- Belarus — 99.9% (2020)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina — 99.9% (2019)
- Bulgaria — 94.5% (2021)
- Croatia — 99.9% (2019)
- Cyprus — 99.3% (2019)
- Czechia
More health data for Finland
- Population ages 00-04, female (% of female population) — 3.99% (2025)
- Population ages 00-04, male (% of male population) — 4.29% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, female — 395,095 (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, female (% of female population) — 13.84% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, male — 414,045 (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, male (% of male population) — 14.83% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, total — 809,141 (2025)
- Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) — 14.33% (2025)
- Population ages 05-09, female (% of female population) — 4.48% (2025)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Finland's births attended by skilled health staff (% of total)?
- 99.5% in 2021, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1990?
- It is up 0.7 percentage points from 98.8% in 1990. The highest value was 99.9% in 2000 and the lowest 98.3% in 1998.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator SH.STA.BRTC.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: State of the World's Children, UN Children's Fund (UNICEF); Childinfo, UN Children's Fund (UNICEF); Demographic and Health Surveys, Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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