Mortality Decline in Kenya: A Reexamination of Recent Under-Five Mortality Estimate

Table 6

Displacement of events: birth ratios of all births, children alive, and children deceased.

Region	All children		Children alive		Children deceased
	2003	2008/09	2003	2008/09	2003	2008/09
Kenya	79.8	79.9	79.4	80.1	82.7	77.7
Residence
Urban	76.2	77.3	73.2	77.0	98.7	81.0
Rural	81.0	80.6	81.6	80.9	77.3	76.8
Region
Nairobi	75.5	75.3	70.6	74.3	129.4	100.0
Central	81.1	101.1	82.5	104.0	60.0	54.5
Coast	91.9	71.8	90.9	74.4	97.4	48.6
Eastern	92.1	80.4	95.1	80.5	60.9	76.9
Nyanza	74.9	99.8	74.5	100.3	76.7	96.2
Rift Valley	74.1	75.4	73.7	74.9	78.0	83.3
Western	73.7	75.1	70.6	72.8	95.2	96.8
North; Eastern	81.7	61.8	83.2	62.6	75.6	52.6