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. 2017 Dec 18;6:165. doi: 10.1186/s40249-017-0379-y

Table 6.

Discounted value of human lives lost due to NTDDs among continental Africa countries (Int$ or PPP, in 2015)

Country (A) Population (B) NTDDs (C) Total value of all human lives lost due to NTDs (Int$) (D) Value of human life lost per NTDD (Int$)
[D = (C/B)]
(E) Value of human life lost per person in population (Int$)
[E = (C/A)]
Algeria 39 667 000 25 76 687 914 304 735 1.9
Angola 25 022 000 1854 321 053 534 173 188 12.83
Benin 10 880 000 599 28 473 736 47 543 2.62
Botswana 2 262 000 22 7 430 499 341 854 3.28
Burkina Faso 18 106 000 1088 45 761 966 42 074 2.53
Burundi 11 179 000 751 14 673 682 19 547 1.31
Cameroon 23 344 000 1505 115 191 263 76 543 4.93
Cape Verde 521 000 4 642 650 149 761 1.23
Central African Republic 4 900 000 742 12 132 085 16 357 2.48
Chad 14 037 000 1659 106 702 194 64 305 7.60
Comoros 788 000 20 727 391 35 531 0.92
Congo Republic of 4 620 000 175 26 065 572 148 966 5.64
Cote d’Ivoire 22 702 000 2758 231 097 654 83 803 10.18
DRC 77 267 000 7298 140 486 238 19 250 1.82
Equatorial Guinea 845 000 47 42 493 865 895 595 50.29
Eritrea 5 228 000 279 6 786 209 24 350 1.30
Ethiopia 99 391 000 7315 338 483 350 46 275 3.41
Gabon 1 725 000 107 47 986 750 447 687 27.82
Gambia The 1 991 000 68 2 574 353 37 974 1.29
Ghana 27 410 000 1150 119 008 952 103 489 4.34
Guinea 12 609 000 1271 34 402 618 27 069 2.73
Guinea-Bissau 1 844 000 95 3 193 144 33 478 1.73
Kenya 46 050 000 1469 114 657 578 78 047 2.49
Lesotho 2 135 000 29 1 897 047 66 004 0.89
Liberia 4 503 000 192 3 459 176 18 030 0.77
Madagascar 24 235 000 1017 38 131 704 37 481 1.57
Malawi 17 215 000 554 13 198 778 23 832 0.77
Mali 17 600 000 1009 43 813 514 43 425 2.49
Mauritania 4 068 000 154 14 928 594 97 022 3.67
Mauritius 1 273 000 7 3 212 952 441 942 2.52
Mozambiqu 27 978 000 1543 41 035 562 26 597 1.47
Namibia 2 459 000 18 4 305 273 234 472 1.75
Niger 19 899 000 1428 27 871 413 19 517 1.40
Nigeria 182 202 000 13 944 1 625 450 009 116 572 8.92
Rwanda 11 610 000 408 17 313 494 42 472 1.49
Sao Tome and Principe 190 000 3 185 766 65 785 0.98
Senegal 15 129 000 474 28 758 809 60 629 1.90
Seychelles 96 000 1 496 645 683 843 5.17
Sierra Leone 6 453 000 665 23 115 300 34 786 3.58
South Africa 54 490 000 882 232 433 738 263 625 4.27
South Sudan 12 340 000 3013 124 210 140 41 228 10.07
Swaziland 1 287 000 23 4 630 328 197 374 3.60
Tanzania 53 470 000 2278 175 770 061 77 176 3.29
Togo 7 305 000 443 15 077 774 34 028 2.06
Uganda 39 032 000 2344 112 108 332 47 836 2.87
Zambia 16 212 000 618 48 509 819 78 483 2.99
Zimbabwe 15 603 000 346 16 826 522 48 696 1.08
Djibouti 888 000 34 2 285 624 67 853 2.57
Egypt 91 508 000 630 169 948 068 269 620 1.86
Libya 6 278 000 35 9 714 196 278 383 1.55
Morocco 34 378 000 175 35 758 333 204 524 1.04
Sudan 40 235 000 4184 432 348 755 103 325 10.75
Tunisia 11 254 000 34 8 963 687 266 963 0.80