Table 1 Total population and selected health indicators in ECOWAS.
Country/Indicator | Total population (in thousands)—2016 | Life expectancy at birth (years)—2019 | Under-five mortality rate (probability of dying by age 5 per 1000 live births)—2019 | Maternal mortality ratio per 100,000 live births—2017 | Total NCDs age-standardized mortality rate (per 100,000 population)—2019 | Out-of-pocket expenditure as percentage of current health expenditure (%)—2018 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Benin | 10,872 | 63.43 | 90.29 | 397 | 569.8 | 44.55 |
Ghana | 28,207 | 66.28 | 46.16 | 308 | 551.1 | 37.69 |
Nigeria | 185,990 | 62.62 | 117.2 | 917 | 512.3 | 76.60 |
Burkina Faso | 18,646 | 62.70 | 87.54 | 320 | 566.3 | 35.83 |
Cabo Verde | 540 | 74.03 | 14.86 | 58 | 405.8 | 27.96 |
Cote d’Ivoire | 23,696 | 62.92 | 77.50 | 617 | 527.5 | 39.43 |
The Gambia | 2039 | 65.47 | 51.72 | 597 | 553.7 | 29.34 |
Liberia | 4614 | 64.08 | 84.62 | 661 | 484.3 | 41.79 |
Togo | 7606 | 64.27 | 66.90 | 396 | 558.4 | 56.32 |
Mali | 17,995 | 62.80 | 94.04 | 562 | 604.1 | 33.90 |
Niger | 20,673 | 63.29 | 80.37 | 509 | 575.8 | 48.79 |
Senegal | 15,412 | 68.58 | 45.31 | 315 | 529.5 | 55.89 |
Guinea | 12,396 | 61.01 | 98.8 | 576 | 632.1 | 60.62 |
Sierra Leone | 7396 | 60.77 | 109.2 | 1120 | 631.8 | 44.78 |
Guinea-Bissau | 1816 | 60.22 | 78.47 | 667 | 604.8 | 74.48 |