Health expenditure: how much is spent on health and care worker remuneration? An analysis of 33 low- and middle-income African countries

Table 1 WHO African Region countries by income group

Income group	Country count	Number of WHO Member States by income group	Percent of WHO Member States by income group (%)
Low income	16	21	76
Middle income	17	24	71
Total	33	47	70

The percentages are calculated using the number of countries by income group in the WHO African Region as denominator. The income groups are as per the World Bank 2019 classification of income groups; lower-middle income and upper-middle income groups were merged into a single middle-income group

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