Table 4. Correlation coefficient results for selected variables, African countries’ progress toward integration of NCDs service at the PHC level, 2020.

	Number of essential NCDs medicine available in the country		Number of essential NCDs technology available in the country		Aggregate score
	Spearman's rho,	p-value	Spearman's rho,	P-value	Spearman's rho,	P-value
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capital, 2017	0.31	0.03	0.37	0.009**	0.21	0.15
Out-of-Pocket (OOP) expenditure	-0.51	0.0001**	-0.25	0.09	-0.58	0.0001**

**Correlation is significant at p-value < 0.01 level (2-tailed)