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Table 1 Economic classification of WHO African Region countries in 2013

From: Counting the cost of child mortality in the World Health Organization African region

Group

GNI per capita (US$)

Countries

Group 1: High income and upper middle income

>= 4086

Algeria, Angola, Botswana, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Mauritius,a Namibia, Seychelles,a South Africa (9)

Group 2: Lower middle income

1036–4085

Cameroon, Cape Verde,a Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mauritania, Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe,a Senegal, Swaziland, Zambia (13)

Group 3: Low income

1036 or less

Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Togo, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Zimbabwe (25)

  1. Notes: aSince no child deaths were reported from Cape Verde, Mauritius, Seychelles and Sao Tome and Principe, those countries were not included in the analysis