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LBW=low birthweight. WPP=World Population Prospects. 6 country-years from three countries were excluded owing to an implausible LBW prevalence (<2·1% or >40%); 369 country-years from 45 countries were excluded as they included <80% of WPP-estimated births; 3 country-years from two countries were excluded as they had no information on the number of births in the dataset and were from a context with <80% facility births; some data met more than one exclusion criterion. †Reasons for exclusion were no size at birth and <95% of newborns weighed, percentage weighed did not meet threshold for inclusion, other data quality criteria did not meet threshold for inclusion, model failed, small sample size, and implausible prevalence. ‡Administrative data only: 1127 country-years from 63 countries; survey data only: 151 country-years from 45 countries; administrative and survey data: 762 country-years from 50 countries.

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