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Fig. 3

From: Being the younger child in a large African Family: a study of birth order as a risk factor for poor health using the demographic and health surveys for 18 countries

Fig. 3

Probability of Survival by Birth Order, Children Ages 1–4. Footnote: Includes all children (regardless of year born) of mothers alive in survey year; restricted to children whose mothers were 18–34 at child’s birth and were 30–44 years old at the time of interview, and to children in families with 4+ children ever born to surveyed mothers. Methodology adopted from Demographic Health Survey mortality rate calculations [28]

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