Table 2.
Ordinal wealth rankings (quintiles) of 338 Administrative 1 units in 37 African countries.
| Assets- based wealth index | Mean brightness of night time lights (NTL) | Proportion of area covered by NTL | Mean distance (km) to the nearest NTL | |||||||||||||||||
| Country | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Angola | 6 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| Benin | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | |||||||||
| Burkina Faso | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 1 | ||||
| CAR | 13 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Chad | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Comoros | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Congo | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||
| DRC | 2 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Egypt | 26 | 1 | 4 | 21 | 2 | 3 | 21 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 17 | ||||||||
| Ethiopia | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| Gabon | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||||||||
| Gambia | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | ||||||||
| Ghana | 3 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 5 | ||||||||
| Guinea | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| Kenya | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Lesotho | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 2 | |||||||
| Madagascar | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||||
| Malawi | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Mali | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| Morocco | 7 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Mozambique | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Namibia | 2 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 1 | |||||
| Niger | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Nigeria | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||||||||||
| Rwanda | 3 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 3 | ||||
| Sao Tome and Principe | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Senegal | 1 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | |||||
| Sierra Leone | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | |||||||||
| Somalia | 13 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| South Africa | 2 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Sudan | 1 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 1 | ||
| Swaziland | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | |||||||||||||
| Tanzania | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | |||||
| Togo | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | |||||||||
| Uganda | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||
| Zambia | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 6 | ||||||
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 | |||||||
Based on household assets-based indices; the mean brightness of night time lights; the mean distance to nearest night time lights pixel; and the proportion of area covered by night time lights. Q1 = most poor quintile; Q5 = least poor quintile.