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Table 3 Selected indicators of HSciR performance

From: Governance of health research in four eastern and southern African countries

Country

GDP (millions, current US$, 2016)a

Population (thousands, 2016)a

GDP per capita (current US$, 2016)a

No. of publications per 1 million inhabitantsb

No. of first author publications per 1 million inhabitantsb

No. of trials per 1 million inhabitantsc

GERD as a % of GDP d

GERD per capita (in current PPP$)d

Total R&D personnel per million inhabitants (full-time equivalent [FTE])d

Botswana

15,581

2250

6924

784.80

335.96

41.33

0.53728

86.56169

570

Kenya

70,529

48,462

1455

294.79

125.27

13.19

0.78578

19.06104

1029

Uganda

24,079

41,488

580

198.85

84.27

15.69

0.17043

2.93947

42

Zambia

21,064

16,591

1270

166.23

51.89

15.79

0.27819

7.7016

163

  1. a World Bank. Data from 2016 b Scopus (data publications published between 2008 and 2018) and SciVal (data from 2013 to 2017) c WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform and United States National Institutes of Health clinical trials database. Data from 2018 d United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Institute for Statistics (category: science, technology and innovation). Data from most recent available year between 2005 and 2016
  2. GERD gross expenditure on research and development