Effects of scaling up various community-level interventions on child mortality in Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania: a modeling study

Table 1 Characteristics of the EAC countries included in our analysis

Characteristics	Burundi	Kenya	Rwanda	Uganda	Tanzania
Population, 2018	11,129,204	50,644,314	12,429,546	43,921,666	58,650,994
Population density per Km²	437	90	507	222	67
Median age, years	17.6	19.2	19.6	15.9	17.4
Fertility rate	5.91	4.03	4.11	5.82	5.17
Birth rate (births/1000 population), 2017	41	24	31	43	36
GDP per capita (current US$), 2016	285.7	1455.4	702.8	580.4	877.5
Health spending per capita (current US$), 2014	22	78	52	52	52
OOP expenditure, % healthcare expending, 2014	44.5	67.4	45.4	54.6	43.3
Health expenditure, public (% of government expenditure), 2014	13.2	12.8	9.9	11.0	12.3
External resources for health (% of total expenditure on health), 2014	50.3	27.5	46.2	35.5 (2013)	35.9
Physician / 1000 population, 2015	0.026	0.204	0.064	0.093	0.022
Density of nursing and midwifery personnel, 1000 population, 2014	0.176 (2004)	1.582	0.832	0.648	0.416
Life expectancy at birth, years, 2015	57.1	62.2	64.7	59.2	65.5
Ranking HDI index, 2015	184	146	159	163	151
Under-five mortality rate per 1000 live births, (2015)	82	49	42	55	49
Neonatal mortality rate/1000 live births	29	22	19	19	19
Infant mortality rate/1000 live births	54	36	31	38	35
Stillbirth rate per 1000 live births	28	22	23	25	26
Maternal mortality ratio (maternal deaths per 100,000 live births), 2015	712	510	290	343	398
Progress towards MDG
Achieved MDG4	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Achieved MDG5	No	No	Yes	No	No

GDP, gross domestic product; OOP, out of pocket; HDI, health development index; MDG, millennium development goal; US$, United States dollar; EAC, East African Community. Data presented in Table 1 were abstracted from various publications [26, 40,41,42,43,44,45]

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