Table 1

Year of survey, number of children and childhood morbidity in sub-Saharan Africa

Country	Year of survey	Children (n)	Childhood morbidity
Country	Year of survey	Children (n)	Fever (%)	Cough (%)	Diarrhoea (%)
Angola	2015–2016	6765	15.9	11.1	14.4
Benin	2017–2018	12 256	19.5	16.3	10.8
Burkina Faso	2010	6837	22.4	10.6	15.6
Burundi	2016–2017	6069	39.0	38.3	21.9
Cameroon	2011	5286	29.0	38.3	21.5
Chad	2014–2015	10 775	21.7	19.4	20.0
Comoros	2012	2886	21.5	17.8	16.3
Congo	2011–2012	4621	26.9	27.5	17.2
Cote d’Ivoire	2011–2012	3488	25.3	21.2	18.7
Democratic Republic of Congo	2013–2014	8552	31.1	32.3	17.2
Ethiopia	2016	9696	13.8	16.1	11.1
Gabon	2012	3594	23.7	37.8	17.8
Gambia	2013	3640	13.2	13.5	18.3
Ghana	2014	2782	15.2	14.0	12.1
Guinea	2018	3582	16.1	11.4	11.7
Kenya	2014	19 344	24.2	35.8	15.0
Lesotho	2014	1381	15.1	27.7	12.2
Liberia	2013	3329	32.8	29.3	24.8
Malawi	2015–2016	5384	29.9	24.4	20.6
Mali	2018	8908	16.6	9.6	17.6
Namibia	2013	1945	27.8	32.4	20.4
Niger	2012	5576	13.3	14.1	14.2
Nigeria	2018	11 704	25.8	17.0	12.7
Rwanda	2014–2015	3615	18.9	28.4	12.7
Senegal	2010–2011	4323	21.4	19.7	20.3
South Africa	2016	1460	19.9	25.9	10.8
Tanzania	2015–2016	9213	17.8	16.3	12.1
Togo	2013–2014	3274	22.8	27.8	16.4
Uganda	2016	4530	38.8	42.0	22.4
Zambia	2018	9100	16.9	21.2	15.6
Zimbabwe	2015	5253	14.3	37.5	16.9