Country | Sex (%) | Residence (%) | Mother’s education (%) | Wealth quintile (%) | Birth interval (%) | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Male | Female | Urban | Rural | No education or primary | Secondary or higher | Lowest | Second | Middle | Fourth | Highest | First birth | Less than 24 months | 24–47 months | 48 + months | |
Angola | 41.0 | 34.1 | 31.8 | 45.7 | 42.8 | 24.5 | 47.3 | 45.1 | 38.8 | 26.6 | 20.4 | 35.0 | 46.4 | 37.8 | 27.5 |
Benin | 35.1 | 29.1 | 27.5 | 35.2 | 33.4 | 22.3 | 41.2 | 38.2 | 32.9 | 28.5 | 18.6 | 31.8 | 35.6 | 32.9 | 24.3 |
Burkina Faso | 36.8 | 32.3 | 21.3 | 37.3 | 35.7 | 10.8 | 41.9 | 37.0 | 37.6 | 33.2 | 18.6 | 35.3 | 40.2 | 35.8 | 27.1 |
Burundi | 59.4 | 52.4 | 27.8 | 58.8 | 58.8 | 31.3 | 69.1 | 63.7 | 60.2 | 49.7 | 31.2 | 55.0 | 55.9 | 58.1 | 49.3 |
Cameroon | 31.2 | 26.6 | 19.8 | 36.2 | 35.4 | 20.0 | 40.4 | 38.7 | 27.8 | 20.2 | 9.1 | 25.6 | 38.9 | 29.5 | 22.1 |
Chad | 41.0 | 38.8 | 32.4 | 41.6 | 41.2 | 25.6 | 41.2 | 39.8 | 40.4 | 44.7 | 31.5 | 36.2 | 47.7 | 38.2 | 34.3 |
Comoros | 32.0 | 28.3 | 24.9 | 32.1 | 33.1 | 21.6 | 38.2 | 32.5 | 25.9 | 27.0 | 21.9 | 29.7 | 38.0 | 27.8 | 23.0 |
Congo | 25.1 | 23.7 | 20.3 | 30.4 | 28.8 | 19.6 | 34.5 | 27.6 | 26.9 | 17.0 | 9.3 | 22.5 | 32.9 | 25.6 | 16.3 |
Congo Democratic Republic | 45.2 | 40.2 | 32.5 | 47.1 | 48.3 | 32.5 | 49.7 | 48.3 | 45.8 | 41.4 | 22.9 | 41.2 | 48.4 | 42.4 | 34.7 |
Cote d’Ivoire | 32.7 | 26.9 | 20.5 | 34.9 | 31.2 | 16.9 | 38.1 | 36.1 | 26.3 | 23.8 | 15.6 | 32.6 | 32.1 | 30.6 | 25.0 |
Egypt | 22.8 | 19.9 | 23.0 | 20.7 | 25.3 | 20.1 | 24.1 | 23.1 | 18.1 | 20.0 | 23.4 | 21.2 | 23.1 | 21.6 | 20.7 |
Eritrea | 44.4 | 41.4 | 31.7 | 48.6 | 46.1 | 18.9 | 50.1 | 50.3 | 48.5 | 39.2 | 21.0 | 34.7 | 47.3 | 46.0 | 38.4 |
Eswatini | 32.2 | 25.6 | 23.1 | 30.0 | 34.5 | 21.7 | 38.3 | 32.3 | 26.5 | 25.3 | 16.6 | 27.4 | 34.2 | 29.4 | 22.0 |
Ethiopia | 39.8 | 33.6 | 26.2 | 40.4 | 39.2 | 19.5 | 43.3 | 38.6 | 42.2 | 35.2 | 22.6 | 35.5 | 42.7 | 39.7 | 29.6 |
Gabon | 19.0 | 13.9 | 14.1 | 28.5 | 21.6 | 13.1 | 29.9 | 18.8 | 12.3 | 11.9 | 5.8 | 14.8 | 18.0 | 20.0 | 11.3 |
Gambia | 18.5 | 16.4 | 16.3 | 19.7 | 17.6 | 16.1 | 22.5 | 19.5 | 15.7 | 13.4 | 15.3 | 14.5 | 19.1 | 18.3 | 15.2 |
Ghana | 20.4 | 17.0 | 14.8 | 22.1 | 23.5 | 12.8 | 24.8 | 25.5 | 17.9 | 14.4 | 8.5 | 16.9 | 28.7 | 18.9 | 14.3 |
Guinea | 33.8 | 26.8 | 21.7 | 33.8 | 32.5 | 20.9 | 38.0 | 32.8 | 31.4 | 25.3 | 19.3 | 28.7 | 39.9 | 32.4 | 24.7 |
Kenya | 29.7 | 22.3 | 19.8 | 29.1 | 29.9 | 17.3 | 35.9 | 30.2 | 25.4 | 20.7 | 13.8 | 21.8 | 32.6 | 29.6 | 21.0 |
Lesotho | 38.8 | 28.1 | 27.3 | 35.1 | 38.5 | 27.2 | 45.6 | 38.1 | 34.8 | 28.2 | 13.4 | 30.9 | 46.9 | 39.0 | 25.4 |
Liberia | 31.8 | 27.9 | 25.0 | 35.1 | 31.7 | 17.0 | 37.9 | 34.7 | 31.3 | 24.3 | 13.6 | 30.6 | 40.8 | 30.9 | 21.7 |
Madagascar | 52.9 | 47.3 | 43.4 | 50.9 | 51.3 | 46.3 | 47.6 | 54.0 | 52.5 | 51.0 | 43.6 | 47.6 | 59.7 | 50.4 | 44.7 |
Malawi | 39.0 | 35.4 | 25.0 | 38.9 | 38.7 | 28.1 | 45.7 | 40.4 | 36.8 | 33.1 | 24.3 | 36.5 | 44.4 | 36.8 | 34.1 |
Mali | 28.0 | 25.7 | 16.9 | 29.4 | 29.1 | 13.1 | 33.4 | 32.4 | 29.3 | 23.2 | 12.8 | 26.4 | 30.0 | 27.2 | 22.3 |
Morocco | 23.9 | 21.0 | 16.2 | 28.8 | 24.9 | 13.5 | 35.0 | 24.8 | 19.7 | 14.7 | 12.5 | 19.3 | 29.3 | 25.7 | 19.6 |
Mozambique | 44.7 | 40.5 | 35.0 | 45.5 | 44.9 | 27.0 | 51.1 | 48.0 | 46.4 | 37.4 | 24.1 | 46.3 | 45.5 | 43.6 | 36.0 |
Namibia | 26.5 | 20.9 | 16.7 | 27.8 | 30.4 | 18.3 | 31.3 | 28.7 | 24.1 | 16.7 | 8.7 | 21.7 | 22.8 | 25.9 | 19.0 |
Niger | 45.8 | 41.9 | 29.6 | 45.9 | 44.1 | 22.7 | 46.9 | 48.0 | 41.8 | 46.7 | 34.5 | 44.6 | 51.1 | 41.7 | 35.6 |
Nigeria | 39.4 | 34.2 | 26.8 | 44.8 | 49.2 | 21.2 | 55.4 | 49.4 | 37.8 | 26.9 | 16.8 | 30.1 | 42.6 | 38.6 | 30.9 |
Rwanda | 37.0 | 29.2 | 19.8 | 35.8 | 37.0 | 20.5 | 48.5 | 40.5 | 32.8 | 28.6 | 10.7 | 30.5 | 36.9 | 35.1 | 31.2 |
Sao Tome and Principe | 29.1 | 29.5 | 29.3 | 29.3 | 31.0 | 24.6 | 38.2 | 34.9 | 32.2 | 20.5 | 17.6 | 27.5 | 38.0 | 32.0 | 25.7 |
Senegal | 18.9 | 16.8 | 11.5 | 21.4 | 18.6 | 13.3 | 27.1 | 20.7 | 13.2 | 14.0 | 9.3 | 18.3 | 19.6 | 18.0 | 15.6 |
Sierra Leone | 32.1 | 26.8 | 24.5 | 31.9 | 31.2 | 24.3 | 32.7 | 32.3 | 31.2 | 23.4 | 24.1 | 28.5 | 34.4 | 30.7 | 25.3 |
South Africa | 29.8 | 25.0 | 25.7 | 29.2 | 40.4 | 24.8 | 36.3 | 29.4 | 23.9 | 24.5 | 12.5 | 24.0 | 27.1 | 31.0 | 26.6 |
Tanzania | 36.7 | 32.2 | 24.7 | 37.8 | 35.9 | 23.3 | 39.9 | 39.4 | 38.7 | 29.7 | 19.2 | 33.7 | 35.5 | 36.8 | 28.9 |
Togo | 28.1 | 26.9 | 16.0 | 33.3 | 29.1 | 17.9 | 33.4 | 37.5 | 32.5 | 19.4 | 10.6 | 24.8 | 35.6 | 28.4 | 21.5 |
Uganda | 30.9 | 26.9 | 23.5 | 30.2 | 31.2 | 19.9 | 32.3 | 33.2 | 33.0 | 27.2 | 16.7 | 28.0 | 32.5 | 28.8 | 21.5 |
Zambia | 38.3 | 31.0 | 32.1 | 35.9 | 37.6 | 29.9 | 40.1 | 36.6 | 32.9 | 35.3 | 23.9 | 35.0 | 42.1 | 35.1 | 30.5 |
Zimbabwe | 29.6 | 24.0 | 22.1 | 28.5 | 31.8 | 23.4 | 33.0 | 28.8 | 25.4 | 26.3 | 16.6 | 24.3 | 27.3 | 31.9 | 21.3 |