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).