Table 1.
UHC service coverage, total per capita health expenditure and prevalence of ECC in 3–5-year-old children by income-levels
| Variables | LICs | LMICs | UMICs | HICs | All | P |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 20 | 24 | 33 | 83 | ||
| UHC service coverage index | 44.33 (2.34) a | 59.70 (10.10) b | 71.50 (6.01) c | 80.48 (5.50) d | 70.27 (12.84) | < 0.0001* |
| Total health expenditure percentage of GDP | 4.46 (1.15) a | 4.65 (1.40) a | 6.19 (2.18) a | 8.48 (3.03) b | 6.61 (2.86) | < 0.0001* |
| Percentage of 3–5-year-old children with ECC | 63.12 (20.33) ab | 64.77 (18.18) a | 65.33 (17.54) a | 44.97 (22.87) b | 56.94 (22.10) | 0.001* |
LIC low-income country, LMIC lower middle-income country, UMIC upper middle-income country, HIC high income country
*Statistically significant at P ≤ 0.001, a, b, c, d: different letters denote columns that are statistically significant different from each other in same row. Same letters connote columns that are not statistically significantly different from each other in the same row