Bangladesh Births attended by skilled health staff (% of total)

Bangladesh Births attended by skilled health staff (% of total): Key Points

• Two numbers frame this chart: 42.10 Percent of live births for Bangladesh's births attended by skilled health staff in 2014, 59.00 Percent of live births in 2019. That gap works out to a 40% rise.
• 2016: jumps to 49.80 Percent of live births (+18%).
• 2017: spikes to 67.80 Percent of live births (+36%).
• 2018: slips to 52.70 Percent of live births (-22%).
• 2019: lifts to 59.00 Percent of live births (+12%).
• 2019: The chart closes at 59.00 Percent of live births. Over the full stretch from 2014, that's a 40.1% gain.

What The Ups And Downs Really Mean

Multiple direction changes over the period mean any two-point comparison — say, first year to last — is likely to be misleading on its own. The middle years matter just as much.

A useful next step is checking whether Bangladesh's policy or economic context changed materially over this period — births attended by skilled health staff series like this one often reflect a specific decision or shock more than a slow organic drift.

Like most indicator series of this kind, the Bangladesh numbers here are compiled from periodic surveys and filled in with modeling for the years between — read the shape of the trend, hold individual annual figures loosely.

There's a real gap between 2014 and 2016 in the underlying data — not a zero, not an interpolated value, just missing. Don't read a straight line between those two points as what actually happened in between.