it is calculated using the number of deprivations that the multidimensionally deprived children encounter divided by the maximum number of dimensions considered showing the average number of deprivations the deprived children experience the child population per country is calculated multiplying the total population size in retrieved from the world bank databank oct with the percentage of children as a share of the total population of each country derived by authors calculations based on dhsmics data see annexes and in these countries represented of the total population of subsaharan africa and of the worlds population