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. 2023 Sep 12;3(9):e0001672. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0001672

Table 1. Demographic and mortality characteristics for the four case study countries.

Characteristics Bangladesh Ethiopia Malawi Uganda
Total population size (million)1 166.3 117.9 19.6 47.1
Total number of districts 64 832 28 136
Maternal Mortality Ratio per 100,0002 173 401 349 336
Under 5 Mortality Rate per10003 29.3 59 59.1 58.4
Neonatal Mortality rate per 10004 17 33 19 19
Date launched QCN 2017 2017 2017 2017
Number of QCN learning districts 28 14 6 6
Number of QCN learning facilities 298 48 25 18

1 Population size from World Bank 2021 https://data.worldbank.org/indicator [15, 17, 20, 22]

2 Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Malawi MMR estimates from World Bank 2017 [25, 26]; Uganda from UDHS2016 [27]

3 Under 5 MR Bangladesh, Malawi and Uganda(global age -sex-specific fertility and mortality rate 2019) [28]; Ethiopia (Mini-DHS 2019) [29]

4NMR Ethiopia (Mini-DHS 2019), UNICEF DATA (2020) Bangladesh, Malawi and Uganda [25, 26, 29, 30]