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Table 5 Human Opportunity Index on Selected Nutrition Indicators by countries

From: Assessing and decomposing inequality of opportunity in access to child health and nutrition in sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from three countries with low human development index

 

NUTRI1

(%)

Stunting

(%)

Wasting

(%)

Underweight

(%)

Blood tests (%)

Coverage (C)

Democratic Republic of Congo

51.87

19.01

5.59

16

27.34

Guinea Bissau

65.15

19.26

5.14

11.17

36.72

MALI

58.29

14.87

11.62

16.31

25.16

Penalty (P)

Congo DR

3.93

1.07

0.46

1.62

4.89

Guinea Bissau

3.75

2.24

1.23

2.31

4.72

MALI

4.66

1.50

0.93

1.53

3.27

Dissimilarity (D)

Congo DR

7.57

5.64

8.27

10.15

17.90

Guinea Bissau

5.76

11.64

23.91

20.71

12.86

MALI

7.99

10.07

8.03

9.38

12.98

Equality (E)

Congo DR

92.43

94.36

91.73

89.85

82.1

Guinea Bissau

94.24

88.36

76.09

79.28

87.14

MALI

92.01

89.93

91.97

90.62

87.02

HOI

Congo DR

47.94

17.94

5.13

14.37

22.45

Guinea Bissau

61.40

17.02

3.91

8.85

32

MALI

53.63

13.37

10.68

14.78

21.90

  1. Source: Authors, based on MICS data