Table 3.

General Characteristics of Sampled Countries

Region	Country (Classification by Income)a	Population in Millions (2012)	Gross Domestic Product per Capita (Current USD) (2013)	Health Expenditure per Capita (Current USD) (2011)	Cause of Death by Communicable Diseasesb (% of Total) (2008)	Infant Mortality Ratec (2008)	Life Expectancy at Birth, Female (Years) (2011)	Life Expectancy at Birth, Male (Years) (2011)
Latin America and the Caribbean	Brazil (UMI)	198.66	11,340	1,120.6	14	14	77	70
	Chile (HI)	17.46	15,452	1,074.5	9	8	82	76
	Colombia (UMI)	47.70	7,748	432.0	13	15	77	70
	Mexico (UMI)	120.85	9,749	619.6	12	13	79	75
	Uruguay (HI)	3.40	14,703	1,104.9	8	9	80	73
Sub-Saharan Africa	Ghana (LMI)	25.37	1,605	75.0	53	3	62	60
	Kenya (LI)	43.18	943	36.2	63	48	62	59
	Malawi (LI)	15.91	268	30.9	63	53	54	54
	South Africa (UMI)	52.27	7,508	689.3	67	35	57	53
	Uganda (LI)	36.35	547	42.4	65	58	59	57
Asia Pacific	China (UMI)	1,350.70	6,091	278.0	7	13	76	74
	India (LMI)	1,236.69	1,489	59.1	37	47	68	64
	Indonesia (LMI)	246.86	3,557	95.0	28	25	72	68
	Myanmar (LI)	52.80	1,144	22.5	33	48	67	63
	The Philippines (LMI)	96.71	2,587	96.5	31	20	72	65
	Thailand (UMI)	66.79	5,480	201.8	17	11	77	71
	Vietnam (LMI)	88.77	1,755	94.8	16	17	80	71

UMI = upper-middle-income economies (4,086 USD to 12,615 USD), HI = high-income economies (12,616 USD or more), LMI = lower-middle-income economies (1,036 USD to 4,085 USD), LI = low-income economies (1,035 USD or less).

^aCountry groups by income according with The World Bank classification²⁴: The split is based on 2012 gross national income per capita.

^bCause of death by communicable diseases and maternal, prenatal, and nutritional conditions.

^cProbability of dying by age one per 1,000 live births.

Source: Data extracted from data.worldbank.org.²⁴ The gross domestic product for Myanmar was extracted from data.un.org.⁴⁶