3. The Burden of Disease and Mortality by Condition: Data, Methods, and Results for 2001

Table 3.5: Numbers of Data Sets Contributing to Epidemiologically Based Estimates of Deaths Due to Specific Causes

Numbers of Data Sets Contributing to Epidemiologically Based Estimates of Deaths Due to Specific Causes
Cause East Asia and Pacific Europe and Central Asia Latin America and the Caribbean Middle East and North Africa South Asia Sub-Saharan Africa High-income countries Total
Tuberculosis a 24 27 34 16 8 39 31 179
HIV/AIDS a 14 26 27 13 5 37 29 150
Diarrheal diseases 0 15 8 21 24 0 73
Childhood-cluster diseases
  Pertussis 14 33 64 14 8 45 124 302
  Poliomyelitis 22 27 32 15 8 47 37 192
  Diphtheria 12 25 2 14 8 46 8 115
  Measles 22 18 32 12 8 47 22 127
  Tetanus 48 23 27 40 32 79 34 289
Meningitis 23 18 30 12 4 27 43 157
Hepatitis B and C 40 27 47 43 18 67 113 355
Malaria 9 0 2 1 7 142 0 161
Tropical-cluster diseases
  Trypanosomiasis 0 0 0 0 0 36 0 36
  Chagas' disease 0 0 31 0 0 0 0 31
  Schistosomiasis 6 0 3 8 0 37 1 55
Lower respiratory infections 2 0 18 0 9 18 2 49
Maternal conditions (all causes) 6 0 9 5 4 20 1 45
  Unsafe abortion 14 32 27 11 13 49 10 156
Perinatal causes 7 0 7 11 19 12 0 56
Malignant neoplasms 14 12 12 10 3 14 40 105
Drug use disorders 11 11 18 10 6 15 43 114
War 3 1 1 0 0 6 7 18
Total 296 280 438 243 181 807 545 2,765

Source: Authors' calculations.

Note: The data sources include population-based epidemiological studies, disease registers, and surveillance and notification systems. Where possible, regional and global totals refer to numbers of separate studies, or country-years of reported data from surveillance or notification systems. Refer to text for more information on data sources for specific causes.

a. Totals refer to numbers of countries for which data were available, not to total data sets or country-years.

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