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

Table 1 Number of children (Alive and Dead) for mothers interviewed in demographic and health surveys by country and survey year

	Decade 1		Decade 2		Decade 3		All Decades
Country	Survey Year	Number of Children	Survey Year	Number of Children	Survey Year	Number of Children	Number of Children
Burkina Faso	1993	20,655	2003	41,520	2010	56,178	118,353
Cameroon	1991	11,612	2004	29,455	2011	42,312	83,379
Cote D’Ivoire	1994	24,870	1998	7575	2011	28,211	60,656
Egypt	1988	35,519	2000	54,780	2008	48,619	138,918
Ghana	1988	14,216	1998	13,188	2008	11,888	39,292
Kenya	1988	25,173	1999	23,351	2008	22,534	71,058
Madagascar	1992	18,931	2000	20,799	2010	48,464	88,194
Malawi	1992	16,330	2000	40,421	2010	72,301	129,052
Mali	1987	12,251	2001	48,407	2012-13	33,803	94,461
Namibia	1992	13,372	2000	14,946	2013	18,090	46,408
Niger	1992	23,841	1998	28,888	2012	44,183	96,912
Nigeria	1990	28,123	2003	23,038	2013	119,386	170,547
Rwanda	1992	19,440	2000	27,602	2010	32,639	79,681
Senegal	1986	14,389	1997	27,448	2010-11	42,510	84,347
Tanzania	1991-92	29,143	2004-05	30,557	2010	29,777	89,477
Uganda	1988-89	16,074	2000-01	23,410	2011	28,609	68,093
Zambia	1992	22,122	2001-02	23,805	2013	49,207	95,134
Zimbabwe	1988	12,404	1999	14,184	2010-11	19,279	45,867
All Countries		358,465		493,374		747,990	1,599,829

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