Community‐acquired pneumonia and its predictors of mortality in rural southwestern Nigeria: A‐five year retrospective observational study

•Majority of people in sub-Sahara Africa reside in rural areas.•Many hospitals in rural and sub-urban centres do not have adequate personnel and infrastructures.•There are limited dataoncommunity-acquired pneumonia and its predictors of mortality and were largely restricted to urban and suburban centres.•The results of the present study would guide the stakeholders on how to reduce community- acquired pneumonia mortality in rural centres.