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The Rural Water Livelihoods Index
5. Results
The calculation of the RWLI in the manner described above resulted in a score for each country on both the components
and subcomponents. These scores are presented in detail in Appendix III, and the distribution of RWLI scores across all
countries are shown in Figure 6:
While Figure 5 shows the frequencies of RWLI scores across all 158 countries, Figure 6 shows the frequencies of the
four component scores. As can be seen in these figures, the distribution is relatively normal across the spectrum of RWLI
scores (~45 – 96), but there is a greater spread of scores across the 0-100 scale for the four components than for the
aggregated index (which is to be expected).
These national results can be used to provide a global picture of RWLI values, as shown in the map in Figure 7. More
detailed visual presentations of results are provided in Section 5.1, 5.2 and the appendices.
Figure 5: RWLI scores - frequencies