Table 1: Descriptive Statistics of the death counts, the expected counts and SMR of under-five deaths by state for 5-year period (2008-2013) in Nigeria.

	Minimum	1st Quartile	Median	Mean	3rd Quartile	Maximum
Observed counts (y)	21	39	51	78	104	229
Expected Counts (E)	43.73	51.15	61.42	78.00	98.64	197.80
SMR	0.4105	0.7251	0.8303	0.9197	1.0770	1.7570