Table 1.

Median outcomes, predictors and covariates in 363 Latin American cities by category of population size

Population size	Overall	100–250 K	≥250–500 K	≥500 K–1 M	≥1–5 M	≥5 M
# Cities	363	157	97	59	43	7
Amenable mortality rate (women)	493.3	495.7	503.7	482.4	493.3	426.6
	[420.8; 558.1]	[412.7; 569.1]	[421.5; 555.7]	[415.5; 542.4]	[439.2; 564.0]	[313.2; 533.4]
Amenable mortality rate (men)	838.5	846.2	840.9	838.5	831.5	671.7
	[713.9; 946.5]	[724.6; 969.8]	[681.4; 939.0]	[750.9; 943]	[715.8; 937.1]	[571.7; 852.2]
City size (million)	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.7	1.8	12.2
	[0.2; 0.6]	[0.1; 0.2]	[0.3; 0.4]	[0.6; 0.9]	[1.2; 3.1]	[8.6; 20.6]
City growth (%/5 years)	4.7	4.5	4.8	5.2	4.6	3.5
	[3.5; 6.4]	[3.3; 6.1]	[3.6; 6.7]	[4.1; 6.4]	[3.2; 6.2]	[2.9; 4.4]
Fragmentation (patches/km2)	29.5	23.3	24.7	35.4	61.1	56.7
	[11.9; 55.9]	[8.9; 41.1]	[10.1; 43]	[16.5; 58.9]	[40.2; 81.8]	[43.5; 91.5]
Percentage built up (%)	3.5	2.3	2.7	4.7	10.8	23.8
	[1.4; 6.6]	[0.9; 4.2]	[1.5; 5.8]	[2.5; 7.9]	[6.7; 13.1]	[19.4; 27.3]
Socioeconomic Index	–0.4	–1.0	–0.6	0.6	0.3	1.0
	[–1.3; 0.5]	[–1.7; 0.0]	[–1.3; 0.4]	[–0.7; 1.1]	[–0.2; 0.7]	[–0.3; 1.6]

Values are medians [Quartile 1; Quartile 3].