[ILO] Proportion of mothers with newborns receiving maternity cash benefit (%) by country
Countries reporting
7
Highest
100.0%
Croatia
Lowest
0.4%
Mozambique
Median
42.4%
Years covered
9
2015–2023
Data points
378
What the numbers show
[ILO] Proportion of mothers with newborns receiving maternity cash benefit (%) is currently reported for 7 countries. The highest value is 100.0% in Croatia; the lowest is 0.4% in Mozambique.
The median across all reporting countries is 42.4%, and the mean is 48.8%.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 250.
Over the past decade 5 countries rose and 1 fell. The largest increase was in Mozambique (up 100.0%), and the largest decrease in Australia and New Zealand (down 0.4%).
[ILO] Proportion of mothers with newborns receiving maternity cash: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Croatia | 100.0% | 2021 | unchanged | flat |
| 2 | Australia and New Zealand | 94.4% | 2023 | down 0.4% | flat |
| 3 | Micronesia | 59.6% | 2023 | up 3.5% | flat |
| 4 | Polynesia | 42.4% | 2023 | up 6.0% | rising |
| 5 | Cabo Verde | 24.0% | 2023 | up 83.2% | rising |
| 6 | Melanesia | 20.9% | 2023 | up 13.0% | rising |
| 7 | Mozambique | 0.4% | 2022 | up 100.0% | rising |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Southern Europe 98.9%
- Northern Europe 98.2%
- Western Europe 93.7%
- Europe 89.7%
- Eastern Europe 80.1%
- Europe and Northern America 79.0%
- Developed regions (Europe, Cyprus, Israel, Northern America, Japan, Australia & New Zealand) 76.3%
- Oceania 71.5%
- Northern America 58.9%
- Southern Asia 47.1%
- Central and Southern Asia 46.3%
- Americas 39.2%
- Asia 37.2%
- South America 36.7%
- World 36.4%
- South-Eastern Asia 29.9%
- Developing regions 29.8%
- Latin America and the Caribbean 29.6%
- Eastern and South-Eastern Asia 29.3%
- Eastern Asia 29.0%
- Western Asia 27.3%
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 25.2%
- Caribbean 23.2%
- Central Asia 22.9%
- Oceania (exc. Australia and New Zealand) 22.3%
- Northern Africa and Western Asia 19.4%
- Central America 14.0%
- Southern Africa 11.0%
- Northern Africa 10.4%
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 9.0%
- Western Africa 8.7%
- Landlocked developing countries (LLDCs) 8.7%
- Africa 6.7%
- Sub-Saharan Africa 5.9%
- Middle Africa 4.3%
- Eastern Africa 3.4%