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. 2023 Jan 17;20(1):e1004166. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1004166

Table 1. National estimates of FIC, Wagstaff’s index of inequality (W), and Erreygers’ index of inequality (E) for 43 countries.

Country Sample size FIC Rank FIC W Lower bound Upper bound Rank W E Lower bound Upper bound Rank E
Afghanistan 10,597 0.421 10 0.133 0.111 0.155 17 0.130 0.108 0.152 15
Albania 865 0.906 41 −0.121 −0.253 0.010 20 −0.041 −0.086 0.003 34
Angola 4,797 0.282 3 0.410 0.376 0.445 1 0.333 0.305 0.361 1
Armenia 595 0.889 40 −0.162 −0.310 −0.015 16 −0.064 −0.122 −0.006 25
Bangladesh 2,883 0.907 42 0.131 0.059 0.204 18 0.044 0.020 0.069 33
Benin 4,283 0.553 17 0.191 0.157 0.226 12 0.189 0.155 0.223 10
Burundi 4,319 0.841 39 −0.016 −0.064 0.031 43 −0.009 −0.034 0.016 43
Cambodia 2,487 0.802 34 0.329 0.273 0.385 4 0.209 0.173 0.244 9
Cameroon 3,090 0.520 14 0.261 0.221 0.300 7 0.260 0.220 0.300 6
Chad 5,172 0.260 2 0.086 0.050 0.122 26 0.066 0.038 0.094 22
Egypt 5,569 0.415 9 0.088 0.058 0.119 25 0.086 0.056 0.116 19
Ethiopia 1,801 0.400 7 0.298 0.245 0.350 5 0.286 0.235 0.336 4
Ghana 1,987 0.753 30 −0.017 −0.076 0.042 42 −0.013 −0.056 0.031 42
Guatemala 4,221 0.823 37 0.089 0.044 0.135 24 0.052 0.025 0.079 28
Guinea 2,135 0.247 1 0.195 0.139 0.252 11 0.145 0.104 0.187 13
Haiti 2,090 0.410 8 0.256 0.207 0.305 8 0.248 0.200 0.296 7
India 76,079 0.632 20 0.070 0.062 0.079 29 0.065 0.057 0.073 23
Indonesia 6,043 0.680 23 0.112 0.081 0.143 21 0.098 0.071 0.125 17
Jordan 3,558 0.808 35 0.047 −0.001 0.095 38 0.029 −0.001 0.059 38
Kenya 6,940 0.716 25 0.110 0.080 0.140 23 0.089 0.065 0.114 18
Lesotho 1,029 0.687 24 0.079 0.003 0.155 27 0.068 0.003 0.133 21
Liberia 1,771 0.473 12 0.065 0.011 0.119 33 0.065 0.011 0.119 24
Madagascar 4,006 0.487 13 0.238 0.203 0.273 9 0.238 0.203 0.273 8
Malawi 5,623 0.725 26 0.066 0.032 0.100 31 0.053 0.026 0.080 27
Maldives 1,019 0.772 32 0.066 −0.019 0.150 32 0.046 −0.013 0.106 31
Mali 3,224 0.400 6 0.050 0.009 0.091 36 0.048 0.009 0.087 30
Mauritania 3,745 0.364 5 −0.053 −0.092 −0.015 35 −0.049 −0.085 −0.014 29
Myanmar 1,556 0.613 19 0.276 0.218 0.333 6 0.261 0.207 0.316 5
Nepal 1,710 0.793 33 0.026 −0.042 0.093 40 0.017 −0.028 0.061 41
Nigeria 10,212 0.295 4 0.380 0.357 0.404 2 0.316 0.297 0.336 2
Pakistan 4,075 0.675 21 0.332 0.295 0.368 3 0.291 0.259 0.323 3
Philippines 3,523 0.676 22 0.210 0.169 0.250 10 0.184 0.148 0.219 11
Rwanda 2,729 0.948 43 0.128 0.031 0.226 19 0.025 0.006 0.044 39
Senegal 2,103 0.746 29 0.170 0.113 0.226 14 0.129 0.086 0.171 16
Sierra Leone 3,030 0.541 16 −0.035 −0.076 0.007 39 −0.034 −0.075 0.007 36
South Africa 1,176 0.596 18 −0.047 −0.114 0.020 37 −0.045 −0.110 0.019 32
Tajikistan 2,190 0.821 36 −0.068 −0.130 −0.007 30 −0.040 −0.076 −0.004 35
Tanzania 3,484 0.744 28 0.173 0.129 0.216 13 0.132 0.098 0.165 14
The Gambia 2,649 0.831 38 −0.053 −0.112 0.005 34 −0.030 −0.063 0.003 37
Timor-Leste 2,416 0.454 11 0.169 0.123 0.215 15 0.168 0.122 0.213 12
Uganda 5,127 0.539 15 −0.021 −0.053 0.011 41 −0.021 −0.052 0.011 40
Zambia 3,323 0.733 27 0.077 0.033 0.121 28 0.060 0.026 0.095 26
Zimbabwe 2,009 0.761 31 0.110 0.051 0.169 22 0.080 0.037 0.123 20

The lower and upper bounds refer to the 95% confidence intervals of W and E. Countries are ranked from the worst performing (i.e., lowest vaccination rate or highest magnitude of inequality) to the best performing. Sampling weights were applied in all calculations.

FIC, full immunization coverage.