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Table 2 Trends in child mortality for children in large families by age group and decade in 18 African Countries

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

	Deaths per 1000 Children Ages 1–4				Deaths per 1000 Children Ages 5–14
	Before 1980	1980–1989	1990–1999	2000–2014	Before 1980	1980–1989	1990–1999	2000–2014
Burkina Faso	154	119	109	86	33	35	36	31
Cameroon	99	63	67	68	24	28	32	30
Cote D’Ivoire	85	61	61	46	22	24	32	26
Egypt	98	41	19	7	21	8	8	5
Ghana	88	72	52	33	40	24	20	19
Kenya	49	33	37	29	18	11	16	13
Madagascar	79	84	57	36	40	49	33	21
Malawi	162	130	99	67	43	40	32	20
Mali	206	160	117	54	62	36	37	25
Namibia	36	29	23	24	10	14	14	16
Niger	215	215	195	106	77	56	55	47
Nigeria	134	116	117	84	50	29	40	24
Rwanda	158	84	100	55	72	49	86	33
Senegal	180	103	72	44	54	31	37	23
Tanzania	87	67	64	37	18	23	21	15
Uganda	86	84	71	51	52	28	25	22
Zambia	87	79	76	43	28	22	28	16
Zimbabwe	49	24	28	25	24	9	14	16

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 for mortality rate calculations adopted from Demographic and Health Surveys [28]

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