Table 2. Health service coverage gap of skilled birth attendance and one or more antenatal care visits – national average versus within-country inequality in 28 sub-Saharan African countries, 2000–2008.

Country	Skilled birth attendance					One or more antenatal care visits
	Coverage gap (%)		PARa (percentage points)	PAR%b		Coverage gap (%)		PARa (percentage points)	PAR%b
	National	In richest quintile				National	In richest quintile
Benin	22	2	20	90		12	1	11	92
Burkina Faso	62	16	47	75		27	4	23	85
Cameroon	38	5	33	86		17	3	14	82
Chad	84	49	35	42		58	23	35	60
Congo	16	2	14	88		13	2	11	85
Democratic Republic of the Congo	25	2	23	93		14	4	10	72
Ethiopia	94	73	21	22		72	42	30	42
Gabon	13	3	10	80		4	2	2	55
Ghana	41	5	36	87		4	0	4	100
Guinea	62	12	50	80		19	2	17	89
Kenya	58	25	34	58		12	6	6	49
Lesotho	44	16	28	64		10	4	6	58
Liberia	53	18	35	67		20	4	16	80
Madagascar	54	8	46	85		20	3	17	85
Malawi	43	15	27	64		7	3	4	56
Mali	73	24	49	67		63	20	43	68
Mozambique	52	11	41	79		15	1	14	94
Namibia	18	2	16	88		5	3	2	40
Niger	82	41	42	51		54	17	37	68
Nigeria	61	14	47	77		45	6	39	87
Rwanda	71	40	31	43		6	5	1	12
Senegal	48	10	37	78		12	2	10	84
Sierra Leone	58	29	29	50		13	3	10	77
Swaziland	26	8	18	70		3	1	2	65
United Republic of Tanzania	54	13	41	76		6	3	3	47
Uganda	57	23	35	60		6	3	3	49
Zambia	53	8	45	84		6	1	5	84
Zimbabwe	31	5	27	85		6	3	3	47
Median	53	13	34	76		13	3	10	70
95% CI of the median	42–58	8–17	28–40	65–83		6–18	2–4	5–16	57–84

CI, confidence interval; PAR, population attributable risk.

^a Absolute inequality.

^b Relative inequality, calculated by dividing population attributable risk by the national health service coverage gap.

Note: Figures may be affected by rounding.