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. 2020 Jan 28;19:15. doi: 10.1186/s12939-020-1123-y

Table 1.

Country data and statistics

Kenya Malawi Nigeria Tanzania
Total area (km2) [19] 580,367 118,484 923,768 947,300
National population in 2015 (million) [19] 47 18 181 54
% urban population in 2015 [19] 26 16 48 32
% of all births in health facilitiesa [20], 61.2 91.4 35.8 62.6
% population > 2 h travel time to public emergency hospital care [21] 7 7 8 25

a The most recent Demographic and Health Survey as of January 2019 for each country – Kenya 2014, Malawi 2015/16, Nigeria 2013 and Tanzania 2015/16