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Table 4 List of the low- and lower-middle-income countries by geographical regiona (N = 79)

From: Correlates of healthy life expectancy in low- and lower-middle-income countries

Regions

n

Countries

Low-income

Lower-middle-income

Africa

43

 

 Eastern Africa

15

Burundi, Comoros, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Zimbabwe

Djibouti, Kenya, Zambia

 Middle Africa

6

Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Cameroon, Congo, Sao Tome and Principe

 Northern Africa

4

South Sudan

Egypt, Morocco, Sudan

 Southern Africa

2

 

Lesotho, Swaziland

 Western Africa

16

Benin, Burkina Faso, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Sierra Leone, Togo

Cabo Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal

Oceania

6

 

Kiribati, Micronesia, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu

Asia

21

 

 South Asia

7

Afghanistan, Nepal

Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka

 South-East Asia

7

Cambodia

Indonesia, Lao People’s Republic, Myanmar, Philippines, Timor-Leste, Vietnam

 Western Asia

4

 

Armenia, Georgia, Syrian Arab Republic, Yemen

 Central Asia

3

 

Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan

America and the Caribbean

7

 

 Central America

4

 

El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua

 South America

2

 

Bolivia, Guyana

 The Caribbean

1

Haiti

 

Europe

2

 

Republic of Moldova, Ukraine

  1. Notes: ‘n, Number of countries’; ‘a, Based on the United Nation’s geographical region’ (reference from [33])