Factors influencing inequality in government health expenditures within African regional economic communities

Table 3 Summary statistics of the levels of government health expenditure inequality within the RECs

	General Government health expenditure as a percentage of general government expenditure				Domestic general government health expenditure per capita
REC	Mean	Std. Dev.	Minimum	Maximum	Mean	Std. Dev.	Minimum	Maximum
UMA	0.205	0.045	0.136	0.280	0.382	0.101	0.051	0.529
COMESA	0.218	0.040	0.156	0.297	0.709	0.073	0.544	0.851
EAC	0.172	0.022	0.139	0.206	0.639	0.082	0.375	0.732
ECCAS	0.290	0.039	0.215	0.357	0.602	0.122	0.422	0.824
ECOWAS	0.232	0.028	0.179	0.280	0.616	0.130	0.303	0.831
IGAD	0.105	0.067	0.006	0.283	0.316	0.145	0.127	0.647
SADC	0.236	0.028	0.186	0.288	0.625	0.086	0.506	0.851
SEN-SAD	0.242	0.027	0.184	0.299	0.702	0.066	0.617	0.842
Total	0.229	0.050	0.006	0.357	0.630	0.137	0.051	0.851

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