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Table 4 Catastrophic payment and poverty incidence due to childbirth expenditure (%)

From: Cost of childbirth in Upper West Region of Ghana: a cross-sectional study

Wealth Quintile

Catastrophic Payment

Poverty Head Count (Before childbirth Cost)

Poverty Head Count (after childbirth Cost)

Net Count

Quintile 1 (Poorest)

24.6

29.8

30.4

0.6

Quintile 2 (Very poor)

31.9

28.3

30.4

2.1

Quintile 3 (Poor)

13.0

8.7

9.6

0.9

Quintile 4 (Less poor)

21.2

12.4

14.8

2.4

Quintile 5 (Least poor)

14.0

4.4

7.9

3.5

Total

20.9

16.9

18.5

1.6

  1. Monthly Poverty line = Ghc110/USD24.4