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Table 3 Education-based inequality by summary measures across 34 African countries

From: Socioeconomic and residence-based inequalities in adolescent fertility in 39 African countries

Setting

Year

D (Estimate)

R (Estimate)

PAF (Estimate)

PAR (Estimate)

Mali

2018

41.00

28.33

-95.90

-35.04

Angola

2015

47.00

9.70

-85.93

-32.98

Benin

2017

25.20

19.00

-92.53

-17.34

Burkina Faso

2010

25.50

3.48

-63.47

-17.90

Burundi

2016

21.40

13.59

-86.60

-10.98

Cameroon

2018

54.60

19.83

-89.72

-25.30

Chad

2014

55.30

26.14

-95.66

-48.44

Comoros

2012

36.40

N/A

-100.00

-17.01

Congo

2011

37.60

7.37

-80.15

-23.82

Côte d'Ivoire

2012

38.80

20.40

-93.57

-29.09

Democratic Republic of the Congo

2013

36.00

6.71

-76.38

-20.37

Eswatini

2006

48.80

17.27

-89.28

-24.98

Ethiopia

2019

40.50

17.87

-89.23

-19.87

Gabon

2012

21.20

3.90

-73.75

-20.50

Gambia

2019

28.50

22.92

-90.94

-13.06

Ghana

2014

35.00

N/A

-100.00

-16.90

Guinea

2018

41.20

5.90

-78.38

-30.45

Kenya

2014

42.80

24.78

-92.28

-21.53

Liberia

2019

36.10

3.56

-59.07

-20.35

Madagascar

2021

59.50

36.00

-95.05

-32.67

Malawi

2015

49.00

14.61

-88.24

-27.02

Mauritania

2020

32.20

12.50

-87.53

-19.65

Mozambique

2011

42.90

18.87

-94.03

-37.79

Namibia

2013

37.40

9.13

-69.02

-10.25

Nigeria

2018

49.20

25.60

-92.82

-25.86

Rwanda

2019

10.80

N/A

-100.00

-5.48

Senegal

2018

27.00

23.50

-91.96

-13.72

Sierra Leone

2019

34.70

7.67

-83.35

-26.04

South Africa

2016

29.70

4.54

-58.63

-11.91

Togo

2013

29.60

N/A

-100.00

-14.82

Uganda

2016

48.90

13.87

-86.59

-24.55

United Republic of Tanzania

2015

48.30

N/A

-100.00

-22.40

Zambia

2018

48.90

35.93

-95.46

-29.46

Zimbabwe

2015

50.30

5.70

-46.17

-9.18

  1. N/A Not Applicable, D Difference, R ratio, PAF Population attributable fraction, PAR Population attributable risk
  2. Note: Data was not available to calculate the summary measures for five countries (Central African Republic, Eritrea, Lesotho, Niger, and Sao Tome and Principe)