Table 3

Inequality in the proportion of births to women aged 15–49 years that were delivered in a health facility 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 delivered in a health facility 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	1.30	2.34	1.82	1.44	0.08	0.34	0.36	0.21	773	4009	3999	2266
Middle Africa	1.03	1.82	1.48	1.12	0.02	0.27	0.29	0.08	84	1203	1027	361
Western Africa	1.21	3.99	2.01	1.32	0.06	0.43	0.37	0.15	472	5152	3497	1677
Northern Africa	1.11	1.57	1.25	1.24	0.05	0.21	0.16	0.15	161	951	540	642
Asia
South Asia	1.32	1.69	1.22	1.21	0.11	0.20	0.14	0.14	1173	6345	3728	3480
Southeast Asia	1.11	2.10	1.30	1.16	0.06	0.23	0.19	0.11	297	1988	1112	720
Western Asia	1.09	1.29	1.52	1.21	0.03	0.11	0.30	0.15	60	376	442	450
Latin America and the Caribbean
Caribbean	1.69	1.55	1.74	1.24	0.19	0.22	0.37	0.15	76	114	101	59
Central America	1.04	1.19	1.19	1.06	0.02	0.06	0.16	0.06	41	170	161	116
South America	1.02	1.16	1.16	1.05	0.01	0.04	0.13	0.04	34	204	169	131

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).