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Table 1.

Variables, their descriptions and sources

Variables	Descriptions	Sources
HIV prevalence rate per 100 populations.	Estimated number of adult population aged 15–49 years	WHO¹⁶, PRB¹⁸
Contraceptive prevalence rate	Percentages of women of reproductive age (ages 15–49) who are using, or whose partners are using, any modern or traditional form of contraception.	PRB¹⁸
Physicians density	Number of physicians per ten thousand populations	WHO¹⁶
Proportion of Muslim populations	Percentage of population that is Muslim	PRC¹⁹
Adolescent fertility rate	Number of births to women ages 15–19 per 1000 women ages 15–19.	UNDP¹⁷
Mean year of schooling	Average number of years of education received by people 25 and older, converted from education attainment levels using official durations of each level.	UNDP¹⁷