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. 2020 Jul 28;9:163. doi: 10.4103/jehp.jehp_384_20

Table 2.

Ratio of health communication contributions to gross domestic product (billion US$), population (million persons), and primary school enrollment in each low-income country

Country Number of health communication contributions Average GDP (per Billion US$) Publications per Billion US$ Average population (per million persons) Publications per million persons Average primary school enrolment (%gross) Publications per % gross
Afghanistan 3 7.023 0.427 18.029 0.166 56.040 0.054
Benin 12 2.863 4.191 5.605 2.141 80.021 0.150
Burkina Faso 37 3.639 10.168 9.842 3.759 44.261 0.836
Burundi 1 1.053 0.950 5.694 0.176 69.289 0.014
Central African Republic 1 0.991 1.009 2.932 0.341 73.341 0.014
Chad 0 3.343 0.000 7.047 0.000 59.238 0.000
The Democratic Republic of Congo 3 12.731 0.236 39.158 0.077 90.945 0.033
Eritrea 2 1.031 1.939 1.964 1.018 77.030 0.026
Ethiopia 120 22.089 5.433 53.701 2.235 48.748 2.462
Gambia 7 0.551 12.696 1.044 6.705 64.600 0.108
Guinea 5 4.926 1.015 6.785 0.737 51.728 0.097
Guinea-Bissau 2 0.425 4.709 1.051 1.903 66.084 0.030
Haiti 5 3.032 1.649 7.093 0.705 75.901 0.066
North Korea 0 443.275 0.000 19.525 0.000 102.248 0.000
Liberia 8 1.979 4.042 41.074 0.195 71.976 0.111
Madagascar 5 4.148 1.205 12.860 0.389 115.397 0.043
Malawi 75 2.286 32.811 9.153 8.194 101.795 0.737
Mali 9 4.587 1.962 9.685 0.929 48.056 0.187
Mozambique 37 6.834 5.414 15.196 2.435 86.773 0.426
Nepal 91 6.142 14.817 19.016 4.786 113.006 0.805
Niger 3 2.683 1.118 9.507 0.316 35.483 0.085
Rwanda 33 2.408 13.707 6.634 4.974 99.879 0.330
Sierra Leone 15 1.337 11.217 4.313 3.478 64.980 0.231
Somalia 0 1.115 0.000 7.454 0.000 20.210 0.000
South Sudan 6 12.632 0.475 5.830 1.029 81.520 0.074
Syrian Arab Republic 13 11.615 1.119 12.364 1.051 104.487 0.124
Tajikistan 2 3.741 0.535 5.121 0.391 96.334 0.021
Tanzania 103 21.784 4.728 27.254 3.779 79.316 1.299
Togo 7 1.592 4.398 3.988 1.755 105.449 0.066
Uganda 185 7.260 25.481 19.314 9.579 85.775 2.157
Yemen 6 18.407 0.326 13.480 0.445 87.776 0.068

GDP=Gross domestic product