Table 2.

Median spending on health, education and defence (1994-2004) in SSA countries with and without recent conflict

	% of central government expenditure
	Health (1993-2004)	Education (1993-2004)	Defence (1993-2004)
Number of SSA countries where data are available	35	35	32
Conflict	3.5	10.5	14
No conflict	7	20	7
P*	0.01	0.003	0.015

^*Independent-Samples Mann-Whitney U test