Geographical variations in infant and child mortality in West Africa: a geo-additive discrete-time survival modelling

Genus

Journal of Population Sciences

Table 1 Infant and child mortality rates for the countries under study and for selected North and Southern African countries. Included for the countries under study are the numbers of children under age 5 years and those below age 1 and year of the DHS

Country	Under-five mortality rate^a	Infant mortality rate^a	Year of survey	Sample size for the study
Country	Under-five mortality rate^a	Infant mortality rate^a	Year of survey	Children under age 5	Infant (under age 1)
Benin	70	42	2011–2012	13,407	3168
Burkina Faso	129	65	2010	15,044	3825
Cote d’Ivoire	108	68	2011–2012	7776	2130
Ghana	80	50	2008	2992	804
Guinea	123	67	2012	7039	1877
Liberia	94	54	2013	7606	1988
Mali	95	56	2012–2013	10,326	2608
Niger	127	51	2012	12,558	3119
Nigeria	128	69	2013	31,482	8262
Sierra Leone	156	92	2013	11,938	3315
Egypt	27	22	2014
Morocco	47	40	2003–2004
Namibia	54	39	2013
Total				120,168	31,096

^aCulled from reports of the DHS. Rates are based on 5 years prior to the dates of surveys