Reproductive Health

Table 1 Poor-rich absolute gaps in DFPSm among AGYW in sub-Saharan Africa by marital status, sub-region, and country

From: Wealth-related inequalities in demand for family planning satisfied among married and unmarried adolescent girls and young women in sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-regions	Married					Unmarried, sexually active
Sub-regions	Country	Poorest %	Richest %	N	AD (pp)	Poorest %	Richest %	N	AD (pp)
Southern	South Africa	61.4	56.8	248	− 4.6	71.7	70.3	639	− 1.4
	Zimbabwe	85.2	84.9	1029	− 0.3	*	*
	Eswatini	80.6	84.8	209	4.2	83.7	91.9	211	8.2
	Lesotho	63.9	74.3	719	10.4	*	*
	Namibia	58.9	72.5	331	13.6	75.2	82.3	556	7.1
Eastern	Rwanda	74.8	68.5	583	− 6.3	*	*
	Burundi	54.2	49.1	917	− 5.1	*	*
	Malawi	70.8	73.1	3448	2.3	38.3	45.2	413	6.9
	Comoros	18.1	29.5	471	11.4	*	*
	Tanzania	41.7	54.8	1111	13.1	41.0	51.4	351	10.4
	Kenya	55.6	76.1	1239	20.5	60.4	69.0	221	8.6
	Zambia	53.0	74.9	1543	21.9	33.8	42.1	421	8.3
	Mozambique	33.1	55.8	757	22.7	50.9	73.8	260	22.9
	Uganda	35.5	60.1	1991	24.6	50.4	55.7	385	5.3
	Ethiopia	46.8	81.0	1288	34.2	*	*
Central	Gabon	27.9	31.5	613	3.6	49.9	65.5	801	15.6
	Chad	10.3	15	1080	4.7	12.5	28.2	214	15.7
	Congo	28.4	37.2	779	8.8	40.2	39.7	778	− 0.5
	Cameroon	42.0	54.0	606	12.0	66.6	84.4	510	17.8
	Congo DR	9.9	24.5	1459	14.6	18.8	26.5	761	7.7
	Angola	3.3	44.2	1188	40.9	5.5	53.0	828	47.5
West	Ghana	40.4	35.2	457	− 5.2	41.9	36.8	388	− 5.1
	Benin	18.1	19.4	1211	1.3	26.6	28.6	546	2.0
	Niger	31.4	44.0	820	12.6	*	*
	Gambia	11.8	25.2	486	13.4	*	*
	Cote d’Ivoire	18.2	32.8	673	14.6	24.6	46.6	529	22.0
	Togo	13.7	31.1	616	17.4	40.5	50.5	377	10.0
	Nigeria	17.0	34.6	1471	17.6	20.9	31.6	690	10.7
	Guinea	23.5	44.1	594	20.6	42.5	64.8	281	22.3
	Sierra Leone	27.4	50.1	1222	22.7	52.0	70.7	1092	18.7
	Liberia	20.2	44.4	710	24.2	30.4	38.2	949	7.8
	Mali	26.0	53.0	873	27.0	24.7	46.8	182	22.1
	Senegal	26.6	55.8	1058	29.2	*	*

Regions		Median % Poorest	Median % Richest		AD (pp)	Median % Poorest	Median % Richest		AD (pp)
Southern		63.9	74.3		10.4	75.2	76.9		1.7
Eastern		49.9	64.3		14.4	45.7	53.6		7.8
Central		19.1	34.4		15.3	29.5	46.4		16.9
West		21.9	39.6		17.8	30.4	46.6		16.2

Bolded estimates are statistically significant at 5% level of significance
AD Absolute difference, pp percentage point, includes only the most recent surveys from 2012; AGYW Adolescent Girls and Young Women aged 15–24 years; DFPSm Demand for family planning satisfied by modern contraceptive methods; Poorest The lowest tertile obtained from assets-ownership wealth-related index from principal component analysis. Richest highest tertile obtained from assets-ownership wealth-related index from principal component analysis. N = Weighted sample size
*Sub-category with sample size less than 30 observation excluded from analysis

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