Table 2 |
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Summary of country health status* |
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| Burkina Faso |
Eritrea |
Mali |
WHO African Region† |
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| Total population (× 1,000) |
13,228 |
4,401 |
13,518 |
738,083 |
| Total expenditure on health (as % of GDP) |
5.6 |
4.4 |
4.8 |
|
| Adult mortality rate (per 1000 population) |
441 |
313 |
452 |
492 |
| Under-5 mortality rate (per 1000 live births) |
192 |
82 |
219 |
167 |
| Year of life lost by communicable diseases (%) |
87 |
81 |
86 |
59 |
| Causes of death among children under 5 years of age (%) |
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| Neonatal causes |
18.3 |
27.4 |
25.9 |
26.2 |
| Diarrhoeal diseases |
18.8 |
15.6 |
18.3 |
16.6 |
| Malaria |
20.3 |
13.6 |
16.9 |
17.5 |
| Pneumonia |
23.3 |
18.6 |
23.9 |
21.1 |
| Measles |
3.4 |
2.5 |
6.1 |
4.3 |
| HIV/AIDS |
4.0 |
6.2 |
1.6 |
6.8 |
| Other |
11.9 |
16 |
7.3 |
7.5 |
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* Source: World Health Statistics 2006 http://www.who.int/whosis/en/ webcite †WHO African region comprises 46 countries in sub-Saharan Africa including Algeria and Mauritania (African countries outside WHO/AFRO region are Western Sahara, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, and Somalia). |
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Somda et al. Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation 2009 7:1 doi:10.1186/1478-7547-7-1 |
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