Child health inequities in developing countries: differences across urban and rural areas

Table 1 Human development index, urban population and gross domestic product in 15 selected countries

	Human Development Index (HDI) ranking^a	Percentage of urban population^b	Urban population annual growth rate^b	Gross domestic product per capita^c
				Value	Annual variation (%)
	2000 (1)	2000 (2)	198s0–2000 (3)	2000 (4)	1980–2000 (5)
Central & Western Africa
1. Burkina Faso	46	16.7	6.4	270	1.2
2. Cameroon	16	49.0	5.1	664	-0.4
3. Chad	41	23.8	4.0	205	0.7
4. Côte d'Ivoire	28	43.6	4.4	821	-1.7
5. Ghana	12	43.9	4.7	407	0.3
6. Nigeria	25	44.1	5.5	255	-1.0
7. Togo	22	33.4	5.0	320	-1.9
Eastern & Southern Africa
8. Kenya	18	35.9	7.4	328	-0.1
9. Madagascar	20	26.0	4.6	246	-1.7
10. Malawi	37	15.1	5.7	168	0.2
11. Mozambique	42	32.1	6.6	191	0.9
12. Tanzania	30	32.3	7.2	192	0.5
13. Uganda	32	12.0	4.8	339	2.1
14. Zambia	27	35.1	2.2	404	-1.8
15. Zimbabwe	13	33.6	5.0	619	0.1
All 15 countries	NAp^d	35.6	5.4	323	-0.7
Sub-Saharan Africa	NAp	34.0	4.7	572	-0.8
Developing countries	NAp	40.5	3.5	NAv^e	NAv

^aRanking within 48 African countries. Countries are ranked in decreasing order of human development index. Source: United Nations Development Program, 2000.
^bSource: United Nations, 2004.
^cAt constant 1995 US$. Available data for Uganda and Tanzania start in 1982 and 1988 respectively. Source: World Bank, 2004.
^dNAp: Not applicable;^eNAv: Not available.

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