the discrepancy between the deprivation rates for younger and older children depends on the deprivation levels of the agespecific dimensions ie nutrition and health for the first agegroup and information and education for the second this ratio ranges between and with zero showing no deprivation according to the cutoff chosen and one showing that everyone included in the analysis is deprived in all the dimensions analysed in the thirty countries of subsaharan africa the adjusted multidimensional deprivation ratio is when using a threshold of two deprivations ie children are multidimensionally deprived if they suffer from two to five deprivations