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Table 1 Description of Demographic and Health Surveys data by countries, in sub-Saharan Africa, 2007 to 2016

From: Disparities in caesarean section prevalence and determinants across sub-Saharan Africa countries

 

HDI

Country

Year

Number of births

Neighbourhood

Value

Category

Angola

2016

4087

537

0.533

High HDI

Benin

2012

7913

748

0.485

Moderate HDI

Burkina Faso

2010

7636

561

0.402

Low HDI

Burundi

2010

3197

375

0.404

Low HDI

Cameron

2011

5032

562

0.518

Moderate HDI

Chad

2014

2273

438

0.396

Low HDI

Comoros

2012

1575

252

0.727

High HDI

Congo

2011

5579

383

0.592

High HDI

Cote d’Ivoire

2012

3106

346

0.435

Low HDI

DR Congo

2013

8463

530

0.474

Moderate HDI

Ethiopia

2008

2699

548

0.448

Low HDI

Gabon

2012

3488

333

0.697

High HDI

Gambia

2013

3233

281

0.452

Low HDI

Ghana

2014

3091

422

0.579

High HDI

Guinea

2012

2029

276

0.414

Low HDI

Kenya

2014

8738

1504

0.555

High HDI

Lesotho

2014

1986

395

0.497

Moderate HDI

Liberia

2013

2987

319

0.427

Low HDI

Malawi

2016

12,478

850

0.476

Moderate HDI

Mali

2012

3947

390

0.442

Low HDI

Mozambique

2011

4962

591

0.418

Low HDI

Namibia

2013

3454

532

0.64

High HDI

Niger

2012

2990

404

0.353

Low HDI

Nigeria

2013

7591

818

0.527

High HDI

Rwanda

2014

5429

492

0.498

Moderate HDI

Senegal

2011

5367

390

0.494

Moderate HDI

Sierra Leone

2013

4966

429

0.42

Low HDI

Tanzania

2015

4634

600

0.531

High HDI

Togo

2014

3549

330

0.487

Moderate HDI

Uganda

2016

7747

696

0.493

Moderate HDI

Zambia

2013

6768

717

0.579

High HDI

Zimbabwe

2015

3973

399

0.516

Moderate HDI

Madagascar

2009

3241

546

0.512

Moderate HDI

Sao Tome & Principe

2008

1119

104

0.574

High HDI