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In case of institutional deliveries, women predominantly select public health facilities in most
OIC countries, except Egypt, Indonesia, Pakistan and Bangladesh (Figure 2.11). In Turkey,
women in economically highest quintile mostly deliver in private facilities. Overall, very low
percent of women in sub-Saharan OIC countries deliver at private facilities, except in Gabon and
Cameroon, and to some extent Uganda. As expected, the poorest women are unlikely to deliver
at private facilities and they fully depend on the access to public facilities.
Figure 2.12. shows the differentials in place of delivery by socioeconomic status stratified by
private and public facilities
Data source: Demographic and Health Surveys
In most OIC countries with DHS data, higher proportions of urban women were delivering at
both public and private facilities. In Jordan, rural women were more likely to deliver at a public
facility, but urban women at a private facility. In Egypt, the proportions of urban and rural
women delivering at private facilities were almost similar (43.4% and 43.4%, respectively).
Very few women in rural Morocco had delivered in private facilities.