How to use the Countdown country profile

Malawi Maternal and Child Health Data

The Countdown country profile presents in one place the best and latest evidence to enable an assessment of progress in improving reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH) and achieving MDGs 4 and 5. The profile presents the most recent available information at the time it was published on selected demographic measures, coverage rates for priority interventions across the continuum of care, and indicators of equity, policy support, human resources, and financial flows. Missing values, or estimates that are more than five years old, indicate an urgent need for concerted action to increase data collection efforts.

The most current Countdown country profile, containing the latest available Malawi health data on key maternal and child health indicators, was published in June 2012 in Building a Future for Women and Children: The 2012 Report.

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Countdown also produced full, two-page country profiles as part of its reports in 2010, 2008, and 2005.

pdfMalawi Health Data—2010 Profile

pdfMalawi Health Data—2008 Profile

pdfMalawi Health Data—2005 Profile

In March 2012, Countdown published Accountability for Maternal, Newborn & Child Survival: An update on progress in poor countries. This publication included special one-page Countdown country profiles, customized to showcase core indicators selected in 2011 by the Commission on Information and Accountability for Women’s and Children’s Health.

pdfMalawi Health Data—Accountability Profile, March 2012

As a supplement to the Countdown Reports in 2012 and 2010, Countdown’s Equity Working Group produced equity country profiles, containing extra information on selected maternal and child health indicators, disaggregated according to sex, region of residence, wealth quintile, maternal education, and country region.

pdfMalawi Health Data—2012 Equity Profile How to read the 2012 Equity profile