The health consequences of civil wars: evidence from Afghanistan

BMC Public Health

Table 2 Variables’ description and summary statistics

Description of variables				Summary statistics
Name	Symbol	Description	Sources	Mean	Max	Min	Std. Dev	Obs
Per capita health expenditure	PHE	PHE is expressed in constant 2015 US dollar and includes healthcare goods and services consumed during each year	WDI	45.57	69.99	15.80	17.24	73
Per cost of war	PCW	PCW is expressed in millions of US dollar	USDB	9.27	19.43	2.14	5.69	73
Per capita GDP	PGDP	PGDP is expressed in thousands of constant 2015 US dollar	WDI	487.77	587.56	330.30	96.55	73
Child mortality rate	CHM	CHM is expressed as the number of children deaths under 5 years old	WDI	4.90	6.20	3.10	1.11	73
Crude death rate	CDR	CDR is expressed as the number of deaths per 1000 population during the year	WDI	8.19	11.04	6.15	1.51	73
Age dependency ratio	AGD	AGD is expressed as a percentage of working-age population, younger than 15 and older than 64 years old	WDI	95.59	103.67	80.08	7.51	73

Source: Authors compilation
Max Maximum, Min Minimum, Std. Dev Standard deviation, Obs Number of observations, USDB US Department of Defense Budget FY2020

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