The discrepancy between the deprivation rates for younger and older children depends on the deprivation levels of the age-specific dimensions, i.e. nutrition and health for the first age-group and information and education for the second. This ratio ranges between 0 and 1, with zero showing no deprivation (according to the cut-off chosen) and one showing that everyone included in the analysis is deprived in all the dimensions analysed. In the thirty countries of sub-Saharan Africa, the adjusted multidimensional deprivation ratio is 0.42 when using a threshold of two deprivations (i.e., children are multidimensionally deprived if they suffer from two to five deprivations).