Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Infant and under-five mortality in Afghanistan: current estimates and limitations

Kavitha Viswanathan, Stan Becker, Peter M Hansen, Dhirendra Kumar, Binay Kumar, Haseebullah Niayesh, David H Peters & Gilbert Burnham

Volume 88, Number 8, August 2010, 576-583

Table 5. Sex ratio at birth and ratio of proportion of dead boys to proportion of dead girls by parity of mother and sex distribution of children, for women aged 15–24 years, Afghanistan, 2004

Parity No. of women Ratio
boys ever born to girls ever born proportion of boys dead to proportion of girls dead, for all women proportion of boys dead for women with only boy births to proportion of girls dead for women with only girl births proportion of boys dead to proportion of girls dead, for women with 1 girl birth and remaining boy births proportion of boys dead to proportion of girls dead, for women with 1 boy birth and remaining girl births
1 543 1.360 1.504 1.504
2 490 1.154 1.488 1.726
3 353 1.101 1.028 1.647 0.706 1.141
4 191 1.015 1.259 1.262 2.579 1.112