Expected number of maternal and neonatal deaths and stillbirths for a hypothetical cohort of pregnant women corresponding to 1,000 births in Sub-Saharan Africa and the proportion of live-born infants expected to be low birth weight or premature.

¥Maternal and neonatal deaths were expressed as a fraction of total births by multiplying the maternal mortality ratio (maternal deaths/live births) and the neonatal mortality ratio (neonatal deaths/live birth) by 1 minus the stillbirth rate [44]. †For % LBW and % <37 wks, the median and range for all studies performed in the specified country are presented. *Note –UN Data classifies Cameroon and Chad as falling within the Middle Africa sub-region rather than the West Africa sub-region. However, in this table these countries are kept within the West Africa sub-region to maintain congruity with global burden of disease publications.