Comparison of all-cause and malaria-specific mortality from two West African countries with different malaria transmission patterns

Table 1 All-cause mortality rates in The Gambia for children under five from survey and censuses

				Mortality per 1000²
Study type	N¹	Survey/census	Year(s) of study	IMR	CMR	U5MR	Reference
Gambia Population census	79916 ³	Census	1973	243.4		67.8	[52]
	111451 ³		1983	182.2		59.8
	168217 ³		1993	87.7		27.6
Contraceptive prevalence & Fertility Determinants Survey	2521	Survey	1976–80	118.5	53.7	66.1	[27]
			1981–85	103.0	31.6	45.7
			1986–90	93.6	20.6	34.9
UNICEF, Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys	3849	Survey	1995	100.8		29.4	[12]
			2000	96.4		27.4
National Survey on Maternal mortality, Child mortality and contraceptive Prevalence	9359	Survey	2001	87.7	14.4	29.0	[53]
World Bank Surveys plus other National surveys	-⁴	Survey	2004	93.1		26.0	[54]

¹ Number of children below five years.
² IMR = Infant Mortality Rate(0–1), CMR = Child Mortality Rate(1–4 years), U5MR = Under-5 Mortality Rate(0–4) IMR is rate per 1,000 live births, CMR and U5MR are rates per 1000 person-years.
³Estimate of children under five years from census population
⁴ Number based on combination of many surveys.

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