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

Table 3A.4: GBD Regional Epidemiological Analysis Categories

GBD Regional Epidemiological Analysis Categories
GBD region Mortality stratum Region code WHO member states WHO region
AFRO D a 1 Algeria, Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, Comoros, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Niger, Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Togo AFRO
Djibouti, Somalia, Sudan EMRO
AFRO E 2 Botswana, Burundi, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe AFRO
AMRO A b 3 Canada, United States of America AMRO
AMRO B c 4 Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Republica Bolivariana de Venezuela AMRO
AMRO D 5 Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Nicaragua, Peru AMRO
EMRO B 6 Bahrain, Islamic Republic of Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates EMRO
Cyprus EURO
EMRO D d 7 Arab Republic of Egypt, Iraq, Morocco, Republic of Yemen EMRO
EURO A e 8 Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, San Marino, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom EURO
EURO B1 9 Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Georgia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovak Republic, Turkey EURO
EURO B2 10 Armenia, Azerbaijan, Republic of Kyrgyz, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan EURO
EURO C 11 Belarus, Estonia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russian Federation, Ukraine EURO
SEARO B 12 Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand SEARO
Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore WPRO
SEARO D 13 Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Timor-Leste SEARO
Afghanistan, Pakistan EMRO
WPRO A 14 Australia, Japan, New Zealand WPRO
WPRO B1 15 China, Mongolia, Republic of Korea WPRO
Democratic People's Republic of Korea SEARO
WPRO B2 16 Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Vietnam WPRO
Myanmar SEARO
WPRO B3 f 17 Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu WPRO

Source: Authors' compilation.

a. Reunion and St. Helena are assumed to have the same burden of disease rates as the WHO member states shown.

b. St. Pierre et Miquelon is assumed to have the same burden of disease rates as the WHO member states shown.

c. Anguilla, Aruba, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Caymen Islands, Falkland Islands, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Turks and Caicos Islands, and U.S. Virgin Islands are assumed to have the same burden of disease rates as the WHO member states shown.

d. Western Sahara is assumed to have the same burden of disease rates as the WHO member states shown. Burden of disease rates for the West Bank and Gaza were estimated using death registration data and separate estimates of war deaths.

e. Channel Islands, Faeroe Islands, Isle of Man, Gibraltar, Greenland, Holy See (Vatican City), and Liechtenstein are assumed to have the same burden of disease rates as the WHO member states shown.

f. Samoa, French Polynesia, Guam, New Caledonia, Northern Mariana Islands, Pitcairn, Tokelau, and Wallis and Futuna Islands are assumed to have the same burden of disease rates as the WHO member states shown.

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