Table 2

Summary of country health status*

Burkina Faso

Eritrea

Mali

WHO African Region†


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 (%)

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


* 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).

Somda et al. Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation 2009 7:1   doi:10.1186/1478-7547-7-1

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