Table 1. Female empowerment over time.

Median and 10th-90th percentile ranges (in parentheses) for six female empowerment domains and the Female Empowerment Index, for all women in SSA for three years (1995, 2005, and 2015).

	1995	2005	2015
Resources
Family Planning	0.38 (0.14–0.71)	0.43 (0.21–0.76)	0.51 (0.19–0.81)
Reproductive Healthcare	0.56 (0.23–0.81)	0.58 (0.28–0.84)	0.66 (0.41–0.87)
Agency
Decision-Making	0.47 (0.23–0.57)	0.49 (0.22–0.74)	0.62 (0.25–0.87)
Intimate Partner Violence	0.50 (0.28–0.72)	0.52 (0.30–0.77)	0.61 (0.42–0.83)
Outcomes
Education	0.24 (0.02–0.77)	0.25 (0.04–0.84)	0.34 (0.07–0.88)
Employment	0.48 (0.32–0.64)	0.49 (0.27–0.68)	0.46 (0.32–0.68)
Female Empowerment Index	0.44 (0.26–0.65)	0.46 (0.31–0.70)	0.53 (0.33–0.77)