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Table 1 Details of data and variables

From: Socio-economic factors affecting high infant and child mortality rates in selected African countries: does globalisation play any role?

Variables

Symbols

Measurements

Data sources

Infant mortality rate

INF

Number of infants dying before reaching one year per 1000 live births

World Development Indicators [87]

Child mortality rate

CM

Probability of newborn babies dying before reaching five years per 1000 live births in a provided year

World Development Indicators [87]

Public health expenditure

PUH

Percentage of GDP

World Development Indicators [87]

Number of physician

PHY

Number of physicians per 1000 people

World Development Indicators [87]

HIV prevalence rate

HIV

Percentage of the population ages 15–49 years living with HIV

Human Development Reports [32]

Gross domestic product

GDP

Current US$

World Development Indicators [87]

Education

EDU

The expected years of schooling

Human Development Reports [32]

Good governance

GG

Average rank of six vital indicators as government effectiveness, voice and accountability, political stability and absence of violence/terrorism, rule of law, control of corruption, and regulatory quality

World Governance Indicators [88]

Globalization

GLOB

Measures of the economic, social and political dimensions of globalisation of a country over a longer period of time which is a composite index on a scale of 1–100, where 1 denotes the least and 100 denotes the most globalised

KOF Globalisation Index [44]