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Table 1 Descriptive statistics of selected country-level variables

From: A bibliometric analysis of childhood immunization research productivity in Africa since the onset of the Expanded Program on Immunization in 1974

Variable

Median

Range

DTP3 coverage (%)

81.2

33.0 to 99.0

Gross domestic product (USD billions)

27.9

0.2 to 282.8

Adult literacy rate (%)

66.0

26.2 to 93.0

Physicians per 100,000 population

31.1

2.0 to 243.0

Total expenditure on health (% of GDP)

6.1

2.0 to 13.0

Private expenditure on health (% of GDP)

3.2

1.0 to 12.0

R&D expenditure (PPP, USD millions)

129.6

0.0 to 2494.0

Human development index

0.5

0.3 to 0.8

  1. DTP3, third dose of the diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine by one year of age; USD, United States Dollar; R&D, research and development; PPP, purchasing power parity