Before you play

What This Birth Attendance Figure Means

This game compares the share of births attended by skilled health staff.

  • The figure asks whether a trained provider was present at delivery.
  • It is not identical to safe childbirth, but it is one of the clearest proxies for whether a system shows up in time.
  • Maternal mortality tells you when the system failed. Skilled attendance helps show whether it was there at all.

A delivery room is where infrastructure stops being theory very quickly.