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. 2002 Dec 21;325(7378):1457–1461. doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1457

Table 2.

 Health status of mothers and children in the 10 index countries at war in 2000 and the 10 largest arms exporting countries, scaled so that the populations of all countries are of equal size (50 million)w7 w48

No of children aged <5 dying each day
No of women dying during pregnancy and childbirth each year (1995 data)
10 poorest countries engaged in conflict during 2000
Sierra Leone 2009 46 667
Angola 1926 34 466
Afghanistan 1835 19 175
Somalia 1513 37 368
Democratic Republic of Congo 1307 24 272
Burundi 1018 42 500
Ethiopia 1054 44 922
Rwanda 996 40 385
Pakistan 668  3 903
Uganda 940 25 907
10 countries exporting the most arms in the years 1996-2000
United States 15  91
Russia 33 337
France 9 131
United Kingdom 9  65
Germany 7  56
Netherlands 9  65
Ukraine 30 212
Italy 7  52
China 103 539
Belarus 40 168