Table 1.

Summary statistics of selected variables.

		Botswana	Egypt	Ghana	Kenya	Namibia	Morocco	Nigeria	South Africa	Tanzania	WAEMU	Uganda
Volatility	Mean	0.028	0.353	0.167	0.359	0.460	0.000	0.222	0.346	0.139	0.216	0.256
	SD	0.014	0.275	0.103	0.203	0.339	0.291	0.128	0.301	0.073	0.138	0.149
	Min	0.003	0.088	0.062	0.107	0.124	0.028	0.020	0.100	0.049	0.056	0.064
	Max	0.053	1.248	0.493	0.949	1.430	1.235	0.522	1.399	0.359	0.629	0.672
ASVA	Mean	0.019	0.042	0.039	0.036	0.009	0.043	0.042	0.053	0.050	0.046	0.038
	SD	0.226	0.180	0.224	0.208	0.269	0.212	0.194	0.189	0.233	0.205	0.183
	Min	-0.602	-0.265	-0.408	-0.426	-0.868	-0.301	-0.325	-0.176	-0.602	-0.259	-0.395
	Max	0.699	0.778	0.908	0.845	0.778	0.954	0.699	0.903	0.845	1.041	0.740
New cases	Mean	31	292	145	127	37	536	168	1 662	3	151	31
	SD	178	444	294	205	67	841	206	2 686	17	172	57
	Max	1 820	1 576	1 883	1 332	316	3 577	675	12 757	180	901	317
Cumulative cases	Mean	728	38 566	15 474	10 859	2 321	27 249	19 290	201 851	283	16 540	1 537
	SD	1 365	44 415	19 167	15 698	4 041	46 542	23 837	278 924	245	18 892	2 840
	Max	5 609	105 883	47 461	46 144	12 406	182 580	61 667	708 359	509	49 975	10 933
New deaths	Mean	0	18	1	2	0	10	3	50	0	3	0
	SD	0	24	2	3	1	16	6	75	1	3	1
	Max	3	94	9	16	6	70	45	414	6	13	3
Cumulative deaths	Mean	3	2 026	94	196	23	493	391	4 479	11	306	13
	SD	5	2 421	118	275	43	797	455	6 557	10	325	28
	Max	21	6 155	312	858	133	3 097	1 125	18 741	21	841	98

Notes: This table provides descriptive statistics for variables such as volatility, ASVA as well as the number of confirmed cases and the number of deaths of COVID-19, used to calculate CFR and NIR.