Table 1 Estimates of predicted CHW programme costs for selected countries in sub-Saharan Africa (in US$)
From: Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 4. Programme financing
| Country | Column 1: Year in which costs were estimated and the final year in which the programme was (or will be) fully deployed | Column 2: Estimated annual cost of CHW programme (in millions), with commodities | Column 3: Estimated annual cost of CHW programme (in millions), without commodities | Column 4: Country population (in millions) | Column 5: CHW programme cost per capita (with commodities) | Column 6: Number of CHWs | Column 7: CHW programme cost per CHW | Column 8: Monthly salary of CHWs | Column 9: Approximate number of people in each CHW’s catchment area |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 2019, 2023 | $32. 2 | $27.2 | 20.3 | $1.59 | 13 500 | $2 764 | $35 | 1 504 |
| Liberia | 2016, 2021 | $11.8 | $9.5 | 4.9 | $2.41 | 8 311 | $3 115 | $70 | 590 |
| Malawi | 2017, 2022 | $109.0 | $85.7 | 18.6 | $5.86 | 14 910 | $2 384 | $135 | 1 247 |
| Rwanda | 2019, 2019 | $34.0 | $28.1 | 12.6 | $2.70 | 60 000 | $567 | $0 | 210 |
| Sierra Leone | 2016, 2020 | $30.6 | $17.2 | 7.8 | $3.92 | 13 644 | $2 038 | $23 | 572 |
| South Africa | 2017, 2017 | $743.9 | $705.6 | 58.6 | $12.69 | 95 962 | $7 751 | $208 | 611 |
| South Sudan | 2019, 2023 | $34.1 | $27.6 | 11.1 | $3.07 | 28 755 | $1 185 | $7 | 386 |
| Zambia | 2018, 2021 | $140.2 | $68.7 | 17.9 | $7.83 | 42 140 | $3 559 | $23 | 425 |
| Zanzibar | 2019, 2025 | $2.4 | $1.7 | 1.6 | $5.63 | 2 616 | $3 440 | $22 | 612 |
| Zimbabwe | 2020, 2025 | $51.3 | $38.7 | 7.6 | $24.05 | 17 400 | $1 745 | $75 | 437 |
| Median value | $4.77 | $2 574 | $35* | 581 |