Table 4. Birth injury/asphyxia-, neonatal pneumonia/sepsis-, diarrhea-, pneumonia- and malaria-specific mortality fractions and rates* in Nigeria’s six geographic zones.
| Zone | VASA neonatal deaths | All-cause NNMR± |
Birth injury/asphyxia | Pneumonia/Sepsis | VASA 1–59 month old deaths | All-cause 159MR£ | Diarrhea | Pneumonia | Malaria | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CSMFβ (%) 95% CLs |
NNMR± 95% CLs |
CSMFβ (%) 95% CLs |
NNMR± 95% CLs |
CSMFβ (%) 95% CLs |
159MR£ 95% CLs |
CSMFβ (%) 95% CLs |
159MR£ 95% CLs |
CSMFβ (%) 95% CLs |
159MR£ 95% CLs |
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| North West | 309 | 40.6 | 21.4 15.6, 27.2 |
8.8 6.4, 11.2 |
52.7 46.0, 59.3 |
21.6 18.9, 24.3 |
1050 | 125.9 | 26.3 23.1, 29.5 |
33.1 29.1, 37.2 |
12.9 10.6, 15.2 |
16.3 13.4, 19.2 |
33.4 29.9, 36.9 |
42.1 37.7, 46.5 |
| North East | 107 | 37.4 | 17.0 9.8, 24.3 |
6.4 3.7, 9.1 |
46.5 32.9, 60.0 |
17.4 12.3, 22.4 |
364 | 108.2 | 25.3 19.8, 30.8 |
27.3 21.4, 33.3 |
20.0 15.3, 24.6 |
21.6 16.5, 26.6 |
36.2 29.9, 42.4 |
39.1 32.3, 45.8 |
| North Central | 95 | 34.3 | 22.0 11.7, 32.3 |
7.5 4.0, 11.0 |
55.4 44.0, 66.8 |
19.4 6.8, 23.4 |
202 | 57.6 | 16.3 11.3, 21.3 |
9.5 6.6, 12.4 |
17.2 10.0, 24.3 |
10.0 5.8, 14.1 |
39.2 31.8, 46.6 |
22.7 18.4, 27.0 |
| South East | 56 | 36.8 | 35.1 19.8, 50.3 |
13.0 7.3, 18.6 |
50.4 36.4, 64.4 |
18.6 13.5, 23.8 |
186 | 87.3 | 9.2 5.2, 13.2 |
8.0 4.5, 11.5 |
26.4 19.4, 33.4 |
23.0 16.9, 29.1 |
44.8 37.9, 51.8 |
39.0 33.0, 45.1 |
| South South | 37 | 30.2 | 7.5 0.9, 14.1 |
2.3 0.3, 4.2 |
53.7 40.2, 67.3 |
17.2 12.9, 21.5 |
115 | 53.3 | 8.2 3.2, 13.3 |
4.3 1.7, 7.0 |
15.4 8.7, 22.2 |
8.2 4.6, 11.8 |
53.3 44.3, 62.3 |
28.2 23.5, 33.0 |
| South West | 119 | 37.7 | 28.0 17.5, 38.5 |
10.6 6.7, 14.6 |
49.0 38.8, 59.3 |
19.1 15.1, 23.1 |
140 | 44.6 | 22.4 14.1, 30.7 |
10.1 6.3, 13.8 |
20.4 11.9, 28.8 |
9.2 5.4, 13.0 |
29.5 20.0, 39.1 |
13.3 9.0, 17.6 |
| Total | 723 | 37.5 | 2057 | 92.9 | ||||||||||
*All mortality rates are calculated from the NDHS birth history data for the same prior 5-year period as the VASA deaths
±Neonatal deaths per 1000 live births
βVASA cause-specific mortality fraction for the prior 5-year period
£1–59 month mortality rate, calculated as: 1-((1-U5MR)/(1-NMR)).