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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 May 10.
Published in final edited form as: J Health Econ. 2011 Nov 22;31(1):257–270. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2011.10.009

Table 3.

Index values for infant mortality

Generalized Extended Concentration Index Generalized Symmetric Index
Value ν,β 1.5 2 3 6 1.5 2 3 6
Bangladesh −0.034 −0.028 −0.024 −0.020 −0.023 −0.028 −0.037 −0.057
Benin −0.079 −0.070 −0.059 −0.045 −0.062 −0.070 −0.083 −0.101
Bolivia −0.079 −0.072 −0.062 −0.048 −0.064 −0.072 −0.082 −0.100
Brazil −0.049 −0.053 −0.054 −0.054 −0.052 −0.053 −0.053 −0.057
Burkina Faso −0.043 −0.034 −0.023 −0.007 −0.030 −0.034 −0.039 −0.046
Cameroon −0.101 −0.096 −0.091 −0.088 −0.084 −0.096 −0.114 −0.146
CAR −0.060 −0.049 −0.040 −0.036 −0.035 −0.049 −0.069 −0.102
Chad −0.004 0.002 0.008 0.020 −0.001 0.002 0.005 0.009
Colombia −0.022 −0.020 −0.019 −0.018 −0.017 −0.020 −0.024 −0.029
Comoros −0.036 −0.035 −0.031 −0.024 −0.032 −0.035 −0.036 −0.037
Cote D’Ivoire −0.061 −0.057 −0.054 −0.053 −0.048 −0.057 −0.070 −0.090
Dominican −0.043 −0.042 −0.041 −0.043 −0.036 −0.042 −0.052 −0.070
Egypt −0.049 −0.050 −0.050 −0.049 −0.045 −0.050 −0.057 −0.065
Ghana −0.021 −0.016 −0.012 −0.012 −0.011 −0.016 −0.025 −0.047
Guatemala −0.036 −0.030 −0.024 −0.020 −0.024 −0.030 −0.040 −0.057
Haiti −0.045 −0.041 −0.034 −0.023 −0.037 −0.041 −0.045 −0.045
Indonesia −0.062 −0.058 −0.055 −0.055 −0.047 −0.058 −0.074 −0.096
Kazakhstan −0.062 −0.055 −0.047 −0.046 −0.047 −0.055 −0.072 −0.116
Kenya −0.055 −0.054 −0.052 −0.045 −0.049 −0.054 −0.058 −0.061
Kyrgyzstan −0.070 −0.065 −0.056 −0.035 −0.063 −0.065 −0.065 −0.062
Madagascar −0.081 −0.075 −0.069 −0.062 −0.069 −0.075 −0.087 −0.110
Malawi −0.021 −0.016 −0.010 −0.004 −0.013 −0.016 −0.021 −0.030
Mali −0.075 −0.062 −0.050 −0.043 −0.050 −0.062 −0.084 −0.121
Morocco −0.050 −0.048 −0.044 −0.037 −0.044 −0.048 −0.053 −0.058
Mozambique −0.029 −0.015 0.001 0.028 −0.021 −0.015 −0.011 −0.019
Namibia −0.021 −0.019 −0.014 −0.007 −0.017 −0.019 −0.020 −0.020
Nepal −0.047 −0.044 −0.041 −0.036 −0.041 −0.044 −0.049 −0.061
Nicaragua −0.032 −0.032 −0.030 −0.028 −0.027 −0.032 −0.036 −0.041
Niger −0.098 −0.075 −0.049 −0.014 −0.069 −0.075 −0.090 −0.124
Nigeria −0.151 −0.137 −0.119 −0.090 −0.123 −0.137 −0.155 −0.180
Pakistan −0.056 −0.047 −0.036 −0.026 −0.043 −0.047 −0.058 −0.084
Peru −0.065 −0.061 −0.055 −0.045 −0.054 −0.061 −0.068 −0.076
Senegal −0.106 −0.104 −0.100 −0.088 −0.096 −0.104 −0.113 −0.122
Tanzania −0.051 −0.042 −0.033 −0.021 −0.037 −0.042 −0.050 −0.064
The Philippines −0.046 −0.046 −0.047 −0.045 −0.042 −0.046 −0.051 −0.058
Togo −0.059 −0.053 −0.047 −0.042 −0.044 −0.053 −0.066 −0.081
Turkey −0.043 −0.040 −0.037 −0.038 −0.032 −0.040 −0.051 −0.070
Uganda −0.058 −0.053 −0.050 −0.049 −0.046 −0.053 −0.066 −0.094
Uzbekistan −0.001 0.002 0.007 0.014 0.000 0.002 0.005 0.002
Vietnam −0.043 −0.038 −0.030 −0.017 −0.034 −0.038 −0.041 −0.040
Zambia −0.079 −0.073 −0.066 −0.059 −0.063 −0.073 −0.087 −0.110
Zimbabwe −0.038 −0.033 −0.026 −0.018 −0.031 −0.033 −0.037 −0.049