Table 2

Inequality in the proportion of births to women aged 15–49 years who received four or more ANC visits by indicator, region and subgroup, 2017

	Relative measure (unweighted pairwise ratio)				Absolute measure (unweighted average absolute mean difference from highest subgroup category)				Population impact measure (number of additional births with 4+ANC visits if all were like the highest subgroup category (000 s))
	Age	Wealth	Residence	Parity	Age	Wealth	Residence	Parity	Age	Wealth	Residence	Parity
Africa
Eastern Africa	1.34	1.99	1.53	1.26	0.15	0.26	0.21	0.11	1875	3095	2283	1165
Middle Africa	1.08	1.69	1.64	1.25	0.03	0.23	0.26	0.11	140	996	912	488
Western Africa	1.32	3.09	1.84	1.19	0.07	0.36	0.33	0.09	558	4302	3136	1036
Northern Africa	1.17	1.73	1.23	1.27	0.06	0.24	0.14	0.17	223	1095	493	710
Asia
South Asia	1.54	3.53	1.63	1.37	0.09	0.32	0.25	0.15	818	9841	6500	3817
Southeast Asia	1.08	1.50	1.16	1.09	0.04	0.15	0.13	0.07	168	1268	734	463
Western Asia	1.21	1.98	1.97	1.35	0.07	0.24	0.40	0.21	116	809	592	621
Latin America and the Caribbean
Caribbean	1.18	1.26	1.25	1.11	0.05	0.12	0.18	0.08	14	65	50	32
Central America	1.07	1.14	1.06	1.03	0.03	0.05	0.06	0.03	38	143	56	61
South America	1.07	1.22	1.15	1.06	0.04	0.08	0.12	0.05	97	368	152	148

Highlighted cells indicate the subgroup with the highest inequality within a region for each measure of inequality used. Subgroup categories are as follows: age (15–19, 20–24, 25–34 and 35–49 years), household wealth (five quintiles), residence (rural or urban) and parity (one birth or two or more births).
ANC, antenatal care.