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. 2022 Mar 1;7(3):e007803. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2021-007803

Table 2.

Cities included in the analysis; number of DHS clusters (also known as enumeration areas), and number of women with births during the 5-year survey recall period

Most populous city First administrative division where the city is located DHS year Number of clusters sampled in the first administrative division Number in the final analysis sample
Name Population in 2015
(million)
Total Urban City Women 15–49
years in sample
Women with livebirths in recall period Livebirths in recall period
Bujumbura 1.0 Bujumbura Mairie Province 2016 33 33 33 1304 477 662
Lilongwe 1.1 Lilongwe District 2015 37 14 14 1643 679 813
Ndjamena 1.2 N'Djamena Region 2014 50 50 50 1627 786 1307
Monrovia 1.2 Montserrado County 2019 44 36 35 2917 1203 1443
Freetown 1.5 Western Urban District 2019 52 52 52 2373 847 998
Contonou 1.5 Littoral Department 2017 51 51 51 958 408 579
Lome 1.7 Grande agglomeration de Lome 2013 82 82 82 2903 1188 1573
Conakry 2.2 Conakry Region 2018 51 51 51 1917 677 901
Harare 2.3 Harare Province 2015 44 32 32 1684 709 880
Lusaka 2.4 Lusaka Province 2018 63 41 39 2254 946 1183
Bamako 2.8 Bamako Region 2018 47 47 46 1811 941 1325
Dakar 3.1 Dakar Region 2019 20 16 15 1827 664 819
Addis Ababa 3.7 Addis Ababa City 2016 56 56 56 930 198 244
Kampala 3.8 Greater Kampala 2016 45 45 45 1025 445 580
Accra 4.5 Greater Accra Region 2014 47 42 42 1693 586 761
Dar es Salaam 5.3 Dar es Salaam Region 2015 37 37 37 1536 634 772
Nairobi 5.9 Nairobi County 2014 56 56 56 3770 1657 2051
Luanda 7.0 Luanda Province 2015 66 63 63 5395 2598 3593
Kinshasa 7.3 Kinshasa Province 2013 36 36 36 2255 888 1306
Johannesburg 8.3 Gauteng Province 2016 96 88 34 748 275 329
Lagos 11.8 Lagos State 2018 52 49 47 2726 1061 1432
Cairo/Giza 23.0 Cairo/Giza Governorates 2014 153/108 153/79 153/79 2890 1350 1775

DHS, Demographic and Health Survey.