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Table 1 Descriptive statistics of continuous variables

From: A cross-country comparison of malaria policy as a premise for contextualized appropriation of foreign aid in global health

Variable Units N Mean SD Minimum Maximum
Land area Log of km2 215 4.72 1.31 0.30 7.22
Latitude of country centroid Absolute degree 164 27.35 17.78 0.42 74.70
Elevation above sea level Mean metres 164 626.92 560.98 9.17 3185.92
Population size Log 215 6.59 1.06 4.05 9.13
Population density Log 195 1.9 0.62 0.29 4.41
Urban population Proportion 215 0.6 0.24 0.12 1.00
Population within 100 km of coast Proportion 164 0.43 0.36 0.00 1.00
GDP per capita PPP Log of US$ 192 4.07 0.5 2.9 5.06
Total GDP PPP Log of millions US$ 192 10.79 1.04 7.62 13.28
Total health expenditure per capita PPP Log of international dollars 185 2.83 0.57 1.47 3.99
Government health to total government expenditure Proportion 186 3.56 2.34 0.37 13.06
Official development assistance received per capita Current US$ 139 124.24 318.11 − 2.34 3034.15
Openness (Sachs&Warner) – 139 0.25 0.40 0.00 1.00
ICRG index – 98 5.68 2.26 2.27 9.98
HDI – 188 0.69 0.15 0.35 0.94
Malaria incidence Per 1000 population at risk 105 96.03 129.49 0.05 460.90
Plasmodium vivax species Proportion 105 0.27 0.37 0.00 1.00
Global Fund funding for malaria control per capitaa US$ 90 0.88 1.82 -0.07 14.85
PMI USAID funding for malaria control per capitaa US$ 90 0.27 0.55 0.00 3.10
World Bank funding for malaria control per capitaa US$ 91 0.01 0.03 − 0.01 0.20
United Kingdom development funding for malaria control per capitaa US$ 90 0.04 0.20 0.00 1.29
Government funding for malaria control per capitaa US$ 70 0.80 2.98 0.00 24.89
UNICEF funding for malaria control per capitaa US$ 61 0.03 0.13 0.00 1.04
Policy score 1 – 93 0.08 0.40 − 0.69 0.82
Policy score 2 – 93 0.73 0.39 − 0.47 1.44
Policy score 3 – 93 − 0.18 0.40 − 0.87 0.92
Policy score 4 – 93 1.02 0.39 − 0.05 1.84
  1. GDP Gross domestic product, Global Fund Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, HDI Human Development Index NMCP National Malaria Control Programme, ICRG International Country Risk Guide, PMI United States President's Malaria Initiative, PPP purchasing power parity, SD standard deviation, UNICEF United Nations Children's Fund, USAID United States Agency for International Development, log common logarithm
  2. aFunding for malaria control (except for UNICEF) as reported by donors
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