UNICEF - Monitoring and statistics

Country Comparison | Indicator Comparison

	Botswana	Burundi	Cameroon	Central African Republic	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	Côte d'Ivoire	Eritrea	Ethiopia	Gambia	Ghana	Kenya	Nigeria	Rwanda	Senegal	South Africa	Swaziland	Uganda	Zambia	Zimbabwe	Sub-Saharan Africa
Infant mortality rate (under 1),2003 ^I-1 ^I-2	82	114	95	115	129	117	45	112	90	59	79	98	118	78	53	105	81	102	78	104
Total population (thousands),2003 ^I-3	1785	6825	16018	3865	52771	16631	4141	70678	1426	20922	31987	124009	8387	10095	45026	1077	25827	10812	12891	665496
Life expectancy at birth (years), 2003 ^I-4 ^I-3	39	41	46	40	42	41	53	46	54	58	44	51	39	53	47	34	47	33	33	46
Total adult literacy rate,2000 ^I-5 ^I-6	77	48	71	47	61	49	56	39	37	72	82	64	67	37	85	80	67	78	89	61
Net primary school enrolment / attendance (%) (1996-2003) ^I-7 ^I-8	84 ^D-1	47 ^D-1	74 ^D-1	43 ^D-1	51 ^D-1	57 ^D-1	61 ^D-1	30 ^D-1	52 ^D-1	74 ^D-1	72 ^D-1	60 ^D-1	75 ^D-1	47 ^D-1	90	71 ^D-1	87 ^D-2	67 ^D-1	85 ^D-1	58
% share of household income 1992-2002,lowest 40% ^I-9 ^I-10	7	15	15	7	-	15	-	22	12	16	15	13	23 ^D-2	17	6	9	16	11	13	11
% of infants with low birthweight 1998-2003 ^I-11 ^I-12	10	16	11	14	12	17	21 ^D-2	15	17	11	11	14	9	18	15	9	12	12	11	14
% of children who are exclusively breastfed (<6 months) (1995-2003) ^I-13	34	62	12	17	24	10	52	55	26	31	13	17	84	24	7	24	63	40	33	28
% of total population using improved drinking water sources (2002) ^I-14	95	79	63	75	46	84	57	22	82	79	62	60	73	72	87	52	56	55	83	57
% of total population using adequate sanitation facilities (2002) ^I-14	41	36	48	27	29	40	9	6	53	58	48	38	41	52	67	52	41	45	57	36
% of routine EPI vaccines financed by government (2003) ^I-15 ^I-16 ^I-17	100	6	100	0	0	58	0	18	63	28	36	100	50	100	100	100	7	5	0	45
% of one-year-olds fully immunized against tuberculosis (2003) ^I-17	99	84	82	70	68	66	91	76	99	92	87	48	88	77	97	97	96	94	92	74
% of one-year-olds fully immunized against DPT3 (2003) ^I-18 ^I-17	97	74	73	40	49	54	83	56	90	80	73	25	96	73	94	95	81	80	80	60
Adult literacy rate,male (2000) ^I-19 ^I-20	75	56	79	60	73	60	67	47	44	80	89	72	74	47	86	81	78	85	93	69
Adult literacy rate,female (2000) ^I-19 ^I-20	80	40	64	35	50	37	45	31	30	63	76	56	60	28	85	79	57	72	85	53
No. of phones sets per 100 people (2002) ^I-21	33	1	5	1	1	8	1	1	10	3	5	2	2	8	41	10	2	2	6	5
No. of internet users per 100 people (2002) ^I-21	3 ^D-2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	1	1	0	0	1	7	2	0	0	4	1
Secondary school enrolment ratio,gross,male (1998-2002) ^I-22	70	12	36	15 ^D-2	24	30	33	23	40	41	34	33 ^D-2	15	22	83	45	19	27	45	29
Secondary school enrolment ratio,gross,female (1998-2002) ^I-22	75	9	29	6 ^D-2	13	16	22	15	28	34	30	28 ^D-2	14	15	90	45	15	21	40	23
GNI per capita (US$),2003 ^I-23 ^I-10	3430	100	640	260	100	660	190	90	310	320	390	320	220	550	2780	1350	240	380	480 ^D-2	496
% of children (5-14 years) in child labour (1999-2003) ^I-24 ^I-25	-	24	51	56	28 ^D-3	35	-	43 ^D-3	22	57 ^D-3	25	39 ^D-3	31	33	-	8	34	11	26 ^D-3	-

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Indicator Notes:
I-1	Probability of dying between birth and exactly one year of age expressed per 1,000 live births.
I-2	Source: UNICEF, United Nations Population Division and United Nations Statistics Division.
I-3	Source: United Nations Population Division.
I-4	The number of years newborn children would live if subject to the mortality risks prevailing for the cross-section of population at the time of their birth.
I-5	Percentage of persons aged 15 and over who can read and write.
I-6	Source: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and UNESCO Institute of Statistics (UIS), including the Education for All 2000 Assessment.
I-7	Derived from net primary school enrolment rates as reported by UNESCO/UIS (UNESCO Institute of Statistics) and from national household survey reports of attendance at primary school.
I-8	Source: UIS and UNESCO, including the Education for All 2000 Assessment, Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) and Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS).
I-9	Percentage of income received by the 20 per cent of households with the highest income and by the 40 per cent of households with the lowest income.
I-10	Source: World Bank.
I-11	Less than 2,500 grams.
I-12	Source: Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS), other national household surveys and data from routine reporting systems.
I-13	Source: DHS, MICS, and UNICEF.
I-14	Source: UNICEF, World Health Organization (WHO), Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) and Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS).
I-15	Percentage of vaccines routinely administered in a country to protect children that are financed by the national government (including loans).
I-16	Expanded Programme on Immunization: The immunizations in this programme include those against TB, DPT, polio and measles, as well as protecting babies against neonatal tetanus by vaccination of pregnant women. Other vaccines (e.g. against hepatitis B or yellow fever) may be included in the programme in some countries.
I-17	Source: UNICEF and WHO.
I-18	Percentage of infants that received three doses of diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough) and tetanus vaccine.
I-19	Percentage of persons aged 15 and over who can read and write.
I-20	Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics, including the Education for All 2000 Assessment.
I-21	Source: International Telecommunications Union, Yearbook of Statistics 1992-2002.
I-22	Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics, including the Education for All 2000 Assessment.
I-23	Gross national income (GNI) is the sum of value added by all resident producers plus any product taxes (less subsidies) not included in the valuation of output plus net receipts of primary income (compensation of employees and property income) from abroad. GNI per capita is gross national income divided by mid-year population. GNI per capita in US dollars is converted using the World Bank Atlas method.
I-24	Percentage of children aged 5-14 years of age involved in child labour activities at the moment of the survey. A child Is considered to be involved in child labour activities under the following classification: (a) children 5-11 years of age that during the week preceding the survey, did at least one hour of economic activity or at least 28 hours of domestic work and, (b) children 12-14 years of age that during the week preceding the survey did at least 14 hours of economic activity or at least 42 hours of economic activity and domestic work combined.
I-25	Source: Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) and Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS).
Data Notes:
D-1	National household survey data.
D-2	Indicates data that refer to years or periods other than those specified in the column heading, differ from the standard definition, or refer to only part of a country.
D-3	Indicates data that differ from the standard definition or refer to only part of a country, but are included in the calculation of regional and global averages.