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Table 3 Relative ranks of child survival inequality by four measures of inequality. Rank 1 refers to the most unequal.

From: Measuring total health inequality: adding individual variation to group-level differences

Country

II

Std. deviation

Coefficient of variation

Gini coefficient

Liberia

1

2

1

1

Mozambique

2

1

2

2

Central African Republic

3

3

5

6

Nigeria

4

4

7

7

Malawi

5

5

3

3

Rwanda

6

6

8

9

Nigeria

7

9

4

4

Pakistan

8

7

13

17

Cote d'ivoire

9

8

10

10

Mali

10

10

6

5

Namibia

11

14

22

26

Tanzania

12

11

12

12

Togo

13

12

16

18

Zambia

14

13

9

8

Madagascar

15

15

11

11

Yemen

16

16

14

13

Nepal

17

17

15

14

Cameroon

18

19

23

23

Sudan

19

18

20

21

Burundi

20

20

17

15

Indonesia

21

24

30

31

India

22

21

26

25

Haiti

23

22

19

19

Ghana

24

23

25

24

Uzbekistan

25

30

35

39

Comoros

26

25

27

27

Egypt

27

26

28

29

Uganda

28

27

24

22

Burkina Faso

29

28

18

16

Kenya

30

29

32

32

Ecuador

31

32

33

33

Benin

32

31

21

20

Bangladesh

33

33

29

28

Bolivia

34

34

31

30

Tunisia

35

36

38

37

Morocco

36

35

36

35

Brazil

37

39

40

40

Guatemala

38

37

37

36

Senegal

39

38

34

34

Peru

40

40

39

38

Zimbabwe

41

41

41

41

Dominican Republic

42

42

42

42

Nicaragua

43

43

43

43

Trinidad & Tobago

44

46

47

48

Thailand

45

45

45

45

Mexico

46

44

44

44

Paraguay

47

47

46

46

Kazakhstan

48

50

50

50

Philippines

49

48

48

47

Colombia

50

49

49

49