Table 2.

The country-level characteristics of the 27 included countries.

Country	Year of survey	GDP per capita (US$)	Adult literacy rate	Health expenditure per capita (US $)
Angola	2016	3110.8	66.0	179.4
Burkina Faso	2010	649.7	34.6	35.2
Burundi	2011	285.7	61.6	21.6
Cameroon	2011	1032.6	71.3	58.7
Chad	2015	664.3	22.3	37.1
Congo DR	2014	444.5	77.0	19.1
Cote d’Ivoire	2012	1526.2	43.9	88.4
Ethiopia	2003	706.8	39.0	26.6
Gabon	2012	7179.3	82.3	321.3
Gambia	2013	473.2	42.0	30.7
Ghana	2014	1513.5	71.5	57.9
Guinea	2012	508.1	32.0	37.3
Kenya	2009	1455.4	78.7	77.7
Lesotho	2014	998.1	76.6	105.1
Liberia	2013	455.4	42.9	46.3
Malawi	2016	300.8	62.1	29
Mali	2013	780.5	33.1	47.8
Namibia	2012	4140.5	88.3	499
Niger	2013	363.2	15.5	24.4
Rwanda	2015	702.8	68.3	52.5
Sao T&P	2009	1756.1	90.1	165.6
Senegal	2011	958.1	42.8	49.5
Sierra Leone	2013	496	32.4	85.9
Swaziland	2007	2775.2	83.1	247.9
Togo	2014	578.5	63.8	33.9
Zambia	2014	1178.4	83.0	85.9
Zimbabwe	2015	1008.6	88.7	57.7

Congo DR- Congo Democratic Republic, GDP: gross domestic product, Sao T&P: Sao Tome and Principe; US$: United States Dollars

GDP – Low-income economies are defined as those with a GDP per capita of $1,025 or less; lower middle-income economies: $1,026 – $4,035; upper middle-income economies: $4,036 – $12,475; Adult literacy rate – low: ≤ 50.0; high: ≥ 50.1; Health expenditure – low: ≤ 100.0; Average: ≥ 100.1.

(Source: World Bank, United Nations Development Programme)