Table 3.

Spearman correlation coefficients of per-person disbursements with measures of health need

	Health need	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013
ODA+ to child health per child younger than 5 years	Mortality rate in children younger than 5 years	0·3107	0·3799	0·2785	0·2748	0·2911	0·3236	0·3107	0·3599	0·3523	0·3471	0·4529
ODA+ to maternal and newborn health per livebirth	Maternal mortality ratio	0·1709	0·2889	0·2066	0·1554	0·2186	0·2049	0·2179	0·2382	0·2676	0·2867	0·3678
ODA+ to reproductive and sexual health per woman aged 15–49 years	HIV prevalence	0·4811	0·6199	0·5149	0·5539	0·5163	0·5008	0·5462	0·5889	0·577	0·5369	0·6113
ODA+ to reproductive and sexual health per woman aged 15–49 years	Female life expectancy	−0·591	−0·6272	−0·5959	−0·6261	−0·58	−0·6133	−0·6413	−0·6279	−0·5969	−0·584	−0·6092

ODA+=official development assistance plus grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.