Causes of death in children under five, 2021

The estimated annual number of deaths from each cause. Estimates come with wide uncertainties especially for countries with poor vital registration.

Country/area	Invasive Non-typhoidal Salmonella (iNTS) deaths • 2021	Homicide deaths • 2021	Nutritional deficiencies deaths • 2021	Hepatitis deaths • 2021	Cancers deaths • 2021	Measles deaths • 2021	Digestive diseases deaths • 2021	Kidney disease deaths • 2021	Cardiovascular disease deaths • 2021	Congenital birth defects deaths • 2021	Lower respiratory infections deaths • 2021	Neonatal preterm birth deaths • 2021	Heat-related deaths (hot or cold exposure) deaths • 2021	Neonatal sepsis & infections deaths • 2021	Natural disasters deaths • 2021	Diabetes mellitus deaths • 2021	Neonatal asphyxia & trauma deaths • 2021	Meningitis deaths • 2021	Other neonatal disorders deaths • 2021	Diarrheal diseases deaths • 2021	Fire deaths • 2021	Road accidents deaths • 2021	Tuberculosis deaths • 2021	HIV/AIDS deaths • 2021	Drowning deaths • 2021	Malaria deaths • 2021	Syphilis deaths • 2021	COVID-19 deaths • 2021
Afghanistan	61	112	602	258	363	3,254	458	133	877	14,226	5,608	2,697	5	720	145	58	9,080	1,590	2,871	3,956	94	493	903	11	480	18	333	228
Albania	0	3	2	0	11	0	2	4	7	61	30	77	0	1	0	0	22	2	75	6	2	3	0	0	4	0	1	2
Algeria	6	5	29	10	123	13	103	48	229	4,813	554	5,311	1	258	3	12	770	53	916	183	80	456	42	2	73	0	125	96
American Samoa	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Andorra	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Angola	336	79	1,804	94	224	295	294	99	373	4,854	4,531	6,597	14	1,913	8	24	10,042	1,274	3,305	3,387	309	1,435	1,691	1,729	1,050	10,110	1,815	207
Antigua and Barbuda	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	3	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Argentina	0	33	28	1	91	0	26	28	47	1,610	211	1,522	0	326	0	2	245	44	246	64	21	61	5	9	73	0	23	31
Armenia	0	0	1	0	7	0	4	0	1	90	77	66	0	58	0	0	19	0	11	4	2	2	1	0	4	0	0	3
Australia	0	7	1	0	25	0	3	13	9	232	13	201	0	23	1	0	115	8	74	3	2	13	0	0	17	0	0	0
Austria	0	1	0	0	8	0	2	3	2	78	2	69	0	4	0	0	27	2	16	1	1	2	0	0	2	0	0	1
Azerbaijan	0	4	8	3	50	0	43	5	10	415	967	804	1	86	0	0	546	14	74	170	37	9	20	1	25	0	8	22
Bahamas	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	7	3	7	0	4	0	0	4	0	3	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	1
Bahrain	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	2	32	4	24	0	2	0	0	4	0	3	2	0	2	0	1	1	0	3	2
Bangladesh	143	58	810	96	544	32	476	351	478	6,762	9,511	13,781	0	6,618	4	6	17,136	483	6,205	2,281	182	158	487	12	2,779	0	1,914	341
Barbados	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	7	1	7	0	3	0	0	4	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Belarus	0	2	2	1	13	0	3	1	2	83	20	57	0	37	0	0	10	8	10	2	4	3	1	4	5	0	0	15
Belgium	0	3	0	0	12	0	2	4	3	112	7	85	0	13	3	0	58	4	19	10	1	4	0	0	3	0	0	0
Belize	0	1	3	0	1	0	1	1	1	16	9	30	0	9	0	0	11	1	4	4	0	1	0	1	2	0	0	1
Benin	613	92	409	10	189	200	216	99	200	2,876	3,486	4,918	7	2,020	3	17	5,678	831	1,056	1,911	182	358	251	36	454	9,076	338	58
Bermuda	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bhutan	0	0	1	1	4	0	2	1	3	33	35	82	0	11	2	0	70	5	25	24	1	2	2	0	2	0	17	0
Bolivia	2	20	171	2	114	0	145	33	74	1,542	747	908	1	503	9	2	475	36	128	285	25	82	44	1	82	0	234	79
Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	1	1	28	5	60	0	5	0	0	14	1	8	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4
Botswana	5	9	82	1	11	3	9	3	11	119	187	348	1	88	0	1	242	24	156	296	15	35	48	8	26	3	51	18
Brazil	6	240	343	8	553	0	325	174	415	9,986	1,835	7,753	1	3,434	6	26	4,312	282	4,283	694	58	298	74	206	396	20	175	441
Brunei	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	20	2	14	0	4	0	0	4	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0
Bulgaria	0	1	1	0	8	0	3	2	4	98	42	92	0	5	0	0	23	4	15	12	2	3	0	2	2	0	0	12
Burkina Faso	2,189	250	2,232	85	357	987	568	242	447	6,853	9,795	6,881	13	4,367	0	37	6,941	2,026	2,295	7,405	485	864	914	85	800	20,807	655	110
Burundi	30	5	795	12	150	291	83	24	120	1,996	1,678	2,348	2	1,792	0	23	3,500	375	1,595	1,925	124	120	489	48	138	10,113	211	47
Cambodia	10	9	105	6	83	0	262	15	49	1,968	2,223	1,878	1	600	0	3	1,131	128	338	284	23	59	131	3	155	1	28	49
Cameroon	771	74	507	4	312	860	289	185	487	5,010	6,616	7,957	12	3,404	0	28	7,870	1,311	1,492	4,273	254	726	530	646	619	13,508	1,477	179
Canada	0	8	1	0	29	0	11	17	19	366	16	419	1	42	0	0	192	7	132	18	7	18	0	1	16	0	0	1
Cape Verde	2	1	2	0	2	1	1	0	1	15	8	27	0	14	0	0	22	1	3	9	1	0	0	1	3	0	4	0
Central African Republic	141	32	689	33	44	2	79	25	110	1,247	2,218	1,669	3	510	0	7	2,677	359	927	2,638	108	431	1,139	157	347	2,730	409	37
Chad	814	163	1,413	66	269	3,096	411	119	551	4,699	13,026	7,721	13	4,450	13	32	11,280	2,382	2,256	20,375	351	615	1,352	70	902	5,531	973	73
Chile	0	5	11	0	18	0	8	7	7	390	30	319	0	59	0	0	63	8	59	18	8	14	2	1	14	0	2	8
China	23	322	522	72	3,067	11	912	148	1,105	18,952	10,116	14,249	63	1,326	38	34	9,361	983	2,090	774	251	2,583	210	404	3,754	0	1,859	1
Colombia	0	65	304	2	111	0	66	20	69	1,741	421	1,308	0	648	6	2	556	58	440	214	16	50	8	29	94	15	14	77
Comoros	0	2	20	1	9	13	4	1	5	79	96	137	0	64	0	1	131	22	56	41	5	9	11	0	6	2	21	2
Congo	25	7	75	5	19	18	21	9	27	384	255	598	1	209	6	2	687	65	286	344	21	87	72	223	64	919	159	20
Cook Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Costa Rica	0	1	1	0	10	0	4	2	3	166	26	123	0	18	0	0	36	4	21	8	1	4	0	1	5	0	1	4
Cote d'Ivoire	1,341	104	456	8	189	699	260	120	477	4,751	6,860	9,051	9	3,345	0	24	9,509	1,070	1,693	3,369	275	352	473	297	436	13,238	881	92
Croatia	0	0	0	0	4	0	1	1	1	42	9	25	0	7	0	0	16	1	12	5	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	3
Cuba	0	4	3	0	13	0	7	2	6	112	47	77	0	31	0	0	35	10	15	11	1	4	0	1	6	0	0	20
Cyprus	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	8	0	7	0	1	0	0	3	0	4	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0
Czechia	0	1	2	0	8	0	2	1	2	44	28	57	0	7	0	0	22	2	13	30	1	2	0	0	1	0	0	10
Democratic Republic of Congo	1,385	151	2,729	39	351	379	661	212	673	10,160	10,249	13,308	27	4,509	11	49	23,885	2,016	8,423	6,942	679	3,069	4,063	105	2,027	47,816	5,095	442
Denmark	0	1	0	0	5	0	1	2	1	60	3	76	0	3	0	0	21	4	12	4	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0
Djibouti	1	3	38	1	12	35	5	2	6	101	92	122	0	87	0	1	143	25	66	66	7	6	17	32	9	18	48	5
Dominica	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	3	0	2	0	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dominican Republic	0	25	101	1	52	0	83	18	41	472	158	1,657	0	826	0	3	455	64	138	256	13	31	10	12	16	0	111	8
East Timor	1	2	34	0	9	0	14	3	11	190	243	238	0	88	11	0	146	26	45	79	3	8	35	11	22	0	9	6
Ecuador	0	14	70	1	67	0	67	18	43	1,081	383	988	0	300	1	1	254	19	200	60	12	85	8	17	55	0	154	40
Egypt	14	57	169	97	513	7	358	286	2,099	9,627	6,015	4,946	3	268	1	43	321	177	587	2,746	89	499	26	38	273	0	252	241
El Salvador	0	16	17	0	16	0	14	8	8	258	89	236	0	86	1	1	68	6	58	60	2	11	2	7	8	0	8	12
Equatorial Guinea	7	2	19	0	5	1	5	3	9	113	82	226	0	56	0	0	198	27	76	39	5	25	15	148	15	450	74	7
Eritrea	10	34	466	9	107	12	55	12	51	856	1,086	845	2	604	0	14	1,156	211	472	852	77	73	305	77	106	16	164	22
Estonia	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	6	2	2	0	2	0	0	1	1	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Eswatini	4	4	41	0	6	9	5	2	5	75	156	153	0	54	0	1	115	16	87	198	7	13	35	49	10	1	39	17
Ethiopia	17	353	5,558	277	1,634	1,317	722	253	573	13,712	13,508	21,332	14	15,947	5	160	34,391	4,202	14,863	13,615	704	732	2,200	442	1,215	5,234	3,026	582
Fiji	0	1	5	0	4	1	1	2	7	62	36	79	0	14	1	0	33	4	11	16	3	3	1	1	7	0	22	5
Finland	0	1	0	0	3	0	1	1	1	37	2	23	0	3	0	0	8	2	5	1	1	1	0	0	2	0	0	0
France	0	15	7	0	90	0	18	19	27	528	31	596	1	113	0	1	258	28	212	29	11	33	1	6	36	0	0	8
Gabon	3	2	15	0	6	1	6	4	6	112	85	199	0	57	0	1	222	24	81	53	6	27	13	27	20	246	56	7
Gambia	68	1	64	0	22	69	18	7	23	241	250	524	1	274	3	2	691	59	140	223	15	20	30	48	28	117	78	10
Georgia	0	0	0	0	7	0	3	1	1	78	36	108	0	43	0	0	27	1	38	2	2	3	1	0	4	0	0	9
Germany	0	12	1	0	83	0	16	32	26	758	20	716	0	65	10	1	262	17	144	26	5	17	0	4	16	0	0	7
Ghana	282	33	818	7	209	31	194	126	262	3,289	2,699	3,485	8	4,463	3	17	8,239	725	1,536	1,494	167	537	279	222	279	7,315	877	112
Greece	0	1	0	0	11	0	1	5	3	89	6	111	0	6	0	0	18	3	5	1	1	4	0	0	6	0	0	2
Greenland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Grenada	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	4	0	1	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Guam	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	4	8	0	1	0	0	3	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1
Guatemala	0	37	260	4	68	0	130	31	87	1,095	1,717	958	1	458	0	4	409	47	307	944	16	32	5	17	22	0	2	65
Guinea	1,149	79	1,028	24	199	1,714	192	71	334	3,135	5,060	3,575	7	1,775	2	17	4,577	1,265	855	1,393	180	296	335	88	411	8,827	725	75
Guinea-Bissau	36	9	32	2	16	351	19	7	30	323	261	599	1	285	0	2	736	74	134	215	15	44	52	165	36	339	61	12
Guyana	0	2	10	0	3	0	4	2	3	41	24	100	0	30	0	0	32	1	21	14	1	2	1	3	3	5	0	3
Haiti	1	225	699	18	224	0	299	71	427	2,995	2,531	1,667	2	1,120	693	28	2,302	574	853	3,525	159	348	189	250	508	75	511	56
Honduras	1	47	19	3	38	0	111	4	23	600	277	434	0	333	0	1	330	35	137	297	3	21	5	19	14	0	21	37
Hungary	0	1	1	0	8	0	4	2	2	81	12	100	0	7	0	0	15	5	6	30	2	2	0	2	1	0	0	10
Iceland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
India	586	650	9,035	9,370	4,115	883	2,359	437	3,904	61,863	104,826	201,795	309	32,974	347	81	77,652	9,390	50,389	37,874	1,291	2,341	4,792	211	6,047	5,014	10,657	3,435
Indonesia	78	119	1,118	57	889	172	2,181	287	979	12,575	8,025	20,309	4	7,071	85	26	12,405	3,312	3,206	8,261	299	1,611	1,487	103	2,202	100	3,020	839
Iran	5	14	11	4	173	0	57	16	76	1,437	184	1,651	1	140	4	4	237	25	424	71	33	199	8	18	28	0	106	168
Iraq	7	150	54	17	221	2	76	54	335	3,399	1,007	4,917	1	1,243	3	18	1,000	134	454	490	89	202	14	7	117	0	153	57
Ireland	0	1	0	0	4	0	1	1	1	70	4	43	0	3	0	0	17	1	5	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	1
Israel	0	5	0	0	14	0	2	9	3	142	4	64	0	13	0	0	25	5	38	11	1	5	0	1	3	0	0	2
Italy	0	2	1	0	53	0	9	11	14	306	15	241	0	73	0	1	92	8	121	16	2	13	0	2	4	0	0	5
Jamaica	0	6	3	0	6	0	3	2	2	79	13	193	0	58	0	0	56	3	28	9	0	1	0	3	1	0	1	3
Japan	0	24	3	1	89	0	19	11	41	725	49	213	5	36	2	0	96	10	87	30	7	21	1	5	34	0	0	1
Jordan	1	9	4	1	36	0	9	13	55	750	165	682	0	165	0	4	118	15	61	37	12	53	1	2	14	0	44	17
Kazakhstan	0	8	10	3	55	0	54	8	25	1,111	387	1,059	3	204	0	1	214	27	77	29	31	42	16	2	82	0	1	60
Kenya	578	68	1,815	46	380	705	131	41	110	3,134	3,755	4,526	3	3,067	3	24	6,165	553	1,873	4,823	140	130	695	1,150	170	4,583	1,071	291
Kiribati	0	0	6	0	0	1	0	0	1	12	9	26	0	2	0	0	10	3	7	8	0	0	2	0	1	0	3	0
Kuwait	0	1	0	0	4	0	1	2	10	160	45	101	0	10	0	0	12	2	6	2	1	8	0	0	2	0	0	2
Kyrgyzstan	0	2	1	3	24	1	25	4	5	445	315	498	1	85	4	0	241	8	600	57	9	16	15	2	46	0	2	11
Laos	5	9	76	4	40	9	60	14	57	1,140	1,061	1,432	0	462	0	1	854	99	230	384	11	34	74	6	71	1	28	21
Latvia	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	13	4	9	0	3	0	0	10	1	1	0	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	2
Lebanon	0	1	1	0	13	6	2	3	10	107	60	189	0	26	0	0	18	3	36	26	1	6	0	3	1	0	11	8
Lesotho	7	11	86	1	7	5	7	3	6	147	405	421	1	120	0	1	319	26	221	609	11	18	89	479	12	0	63	24
Liberia	176	9	181	3	38	275	69	23	74	773	569	1,315	1	531	0	4	1,450	166	291	952	35	56	56	21	76	2,576	356	15
Libya	0	2	5	1	32	0	13	9	176	581	63	426	0	17	0	1	50	8	53	21	14	109	4	3	20	0	8	8
Lithuania	0	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	0	25	6	11	0	5	0	0	5	2	4	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	3
Luxembourg	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	4	0	3	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Madagascar	4	26	2,713	22	326	81	198	48	367	3,739	5,323	5,627	5	2,267	1	46	2,746	955	2,048	8,676	227	215	768	224	284	3,435	1,731	126
Malawi	675	16	947	31	421	338	148	48	115	2,557	2,900	2,576	3	1,776	4	32	3,740	808	1,620	2,346	153	159	449	392	224	4,532	352	163
Malaysia	2	2	12	2	46	5	21	6	28	773	221	551	0	240	8	1	227	36	202	76	5	28	6	14	25	0	22	112
Maldives	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	15	4	15	0	4	0	0	9	0	10	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1
Mali	2,410	168	5,933	7	360	5,820	354	138	426	7,145	6,105	19,930	12	3,770	0	28	12,439	1,276	2,464	4,081	339	572	500	557	812	16,952	1,719	186
Malta	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	9	0	8	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Marshall Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	4	5	0	1	0	0	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Mauritania	43	9	35	2	29	68	25	10	31	391	452	746	1	360	0	2	818	85	161	318	17	107	24	0	38	145	136	10
Mauritius	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	1	41	12	50	0	10	0	0	11	1	8	4	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	2
Mexico	2	276	382	32	418	0	358	121	280	7,207	1,802	5,285	3	3,058	11	16	2,123	85	859	753	37	312	23	44	192	0	9	564
Micronesia (country)	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4	5	6	0	1	0	0	3	0	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	0
Moldova	0	1	1	0	7	0	6	1	1	83	36	36	0	41	0	0	22	5	3	3	2	3	1	3	3	0	0	3
Monaco	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mongolia	0	2	1	1	19	7	17	2	3	196	204	215	2	40	3	0	206	10	12	23	11	12	14	0	18	0	40	5
Montenegro	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	3	1	4	0	1	0	0	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Morocco	9	5	33	8	78	17	100	35	223	1,138	670	2,963	1	162	4	14	508	45	542	633	52	203	36	4	59	0	716	34
Mozambique	606	132	1,628	49	647	329	353	115	177	5,917	4,228	7,353	7	5,166	4	83	9,440	831	4,239	3,902	344	329	1,817	1,931	322	10,818	2,246	266
Myanmar	41	15	183	17	352	77	793	101	374	7,621	6,256	5,419	2	3,197	0	6	3,603	989	1,649	1,759	74	152	472	9	1,363	73	338	163
Namibia	8	9	83	1	18	0	9	2	8	124	166	287	1	92	0	1	218	22	160	336	12	25	41	33	19	14	69	20
Nauru	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Nepal	22	13	282	74	109	113	67	17	101	861	2,347	2,450	1	831	51	1	4,931	170	1,789	623	22	21	65	0	145	1	450	111
Netherlands	0	3	0	0	15	0	3	6	5	181	10	159	0	42	0	0	72	10	46	6	1	4	0	1	4	0	0	1
New Zealand	0	3	0	0	7	0	1	6	3	66	7	86	0	7	0	0	14	4	8	3	1	6	0	0	7	0	0	0
Nicaragua	0	5	36	1	22	0	21	14	11	373	168	378	0	203	0	1	174	14	24	98	2	10	4	4	10	9	14	25
Niger	2,367	188	1,389	39	296	2,488	480	120	494	4,976	11,071	8,888	14	4,560	26	34	8,594	3,223	2,363	10,238	422	492	1,429	33	1,026	22,455	223	107
Nigeria	13,360	2,078	3,636	974	3,800	5,193	3,981	1,274	4,520	50,352	100,330	97,784	109	35,039	1	252	100,305	24,833	16,145	97,680	3,035	3,123	10,208	4,058	6,239	125,696	4,672	811
Niue	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
North Korea	1	15	22	1	94	0	37	4	35	558	335	662	1	74	0	2	335	37	112	17	11	89	59	22	119	0	41	0
North Macedonia	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	1	18	3	44	0	2	0	0	6	1	8	7	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	4
Northern Mariana Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Norway	0	0	0	0	4	0	1	1	1	39	1	15	0	1	0	0	25	2	7	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0
Oman	0	0	7	1	6	0	2	4	23	198	49	160	0	18	5	1	10	2	83	17	1	37	0	3	8	0	2	10
Pakistan	392	326	3,248	1,322	2,798	668	377	533	3,030	18,672	37,580	62,466	17	13,131	73	27	96,082	8,294	25,893	15,359	664	1,598	4,590	450	4,465	1,624	4,159	896
Palau	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Palestine	1	10	3	0	23	1	5	8	37	316	82	383	0	87	0	2	83	7	60	16	3	22	1	1	8	0	14	10
Panama	0	4	29	0	21	0	10	4	8	305	92	172	0	77	0	0	56	12	27	58	1	10	2	11	12	0	1	4
Papua New Guinea	7	28	91	4	65	52	19	32	260	2,278	4,221	1,887	2	278	0	11	840	176	899	1,633	97	139	191	17	274	249	466	83
Paraguay	1	7	39	0	32	0	13	9	10	403	83	434	0	120	2	2	167	20	91	55	5	21	7	7	11	0	121	29
Peru	2	18	144	2	136	0	158	38	67	1,717	1,065	1,090	2	1,224	4	2	1,164	30	115	218	20	127	39	52	76	1	228	169
Philippines	53	106	549	10	551	29	458	127	263	6,766	5,722	9,050	5	5,451	122	17	4,375	746	1,697	2,484	95	233	513	175	676	4	900	703
Poland	0	4	1	0	39	0	9	7	7	478	56	427	1	29	0	0	41	9	36	39	6	14	0	2	5	0	0	27
Portugal	0	2	0	0	9	0	2	3	2	63	5	48	0	11	0	0	27	3	20	2	1	2	0	1	2	0	0	1
Puerto Rico	0	1	1	0	2	0	1	1	1	30	4	31	0	11	0	0	4	0	11	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1
Qatar	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	1	3	49	7	38	0	1	0	0	3	1	6	2	0	4	0	0	1	0	4	1
Romania	0	3	4	1	26	1	12	6	13	274	200	316	1	6	0	0	38	9	34	39	7	15	10	5	9	0	0	22
Russia	1	115	11	7	218	0	46	33	71	1,683	518	1,416	9	655	1	9	501	113	111	73	67	99	18	146	82	0	2	257
Rwanda	13	25	422	14	166	77	97	24	73	1,511	1,387	1,502	2	1,149	0	18	2,079	313	952	1,191	92	173	178	55	129	1,770	283	58
Saint Kitts and Nevis	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Saint Lucia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	1	9	0	2	0	0	4	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	5	0	2	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Samoa	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	11	13	18	0	2	0	0	8	1	5	1	0	1	0	2	1	0	1	0
San Marino	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sao Tome and Principe	1	0	3	0	1	1	1	0	1	10	8	11	0	7	2	0	12	1	3	4	0	1	0	0	0	5	2	0
Saudi Arabia	1	11	5	1	25	1	11	14	37	545	78	470	0	201	0	2	91	7	27	68	11	49	3	11	16	0	19	14
Senegal	245	9	172	2	113	320	106	46	166	1,888	1,814	2,930	4	1,559	0	11	3,349	347	689	999	82	138	113	66	180	1,657	193	67
Serbia	0	1	0	0	6	0	2	3	2	69	10	117	0	9	0	0	36	1	9	5	1	2	0	1	1	0	3	8
Seychelles	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	3	5	0	2	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sierra Leone	548	16	2,692	9	94	77	123	45	265	2,029	1,745	4,573	4	1,523	0	10	3,408	374	575	1,429	114	183	380	24	256	6,341	163	22
Singapore	0	1	0	0	5	0	0	1	2	32	7	17	0	2	0	0	6	1	5	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	0
Slovakia	0	1	0	0	8	0	3	2	2	81	34	86	0	2	0	0	12	2	5	5	1	2	0	0	2	0	1	7
Slovenia	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	10	4	9	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Solomon Islands	0	1	6	0	2	14	3	0	3	56	104	20	0	10	0	0	45	4	23	17	1	1	2	5	5	1	29	0
Somalia	45	151	2,982	192	278	12,875	217	70	277	4,564	8,300	5,765	6	4,183	10	67	9,179	2,200	4,122	9,794	368	290	2,617	261	452	1,206	1,432	260
South Africa	145	318	1,377	7	138	29	129	54	128	2,512	3,540	6,994	13	1,787	8	16	3,726	418	3,800	4,690	214	485	830	691	280	6	1,463	278
South Korea	0	10	1	0	30	0	5	3	11	157	10	154	1	42	0	0	32	3	42	11	3	14	1	1	8	0	36	1
South Sudan	27	115	2,394	34	221	26	157	76	237	3,037	4,573	4,129	4	1,659	3	31	5,261	1,373	1,883	7,019	265	248	1,212	97	399	5,490	1,222	60
Spain	0	4	0	0	38	0	7	12	13	258	12	202	0	59	0	0	102	8	80	10	3	12	0	4	11	0	0	3
Sri Lanka	2	2	6	0	20	0	10	4	16	446	86	503	1	143	4	1	161	41	79	46	5	8	3	2	15	0	11	43
Sudan	32	41	406	112	405	55	393	133	1,038	10,470	2,400	12,439	4	598	14	32	1,816	218	2,037	1,593	294	433	120	394	418	1,532	691	105
Suriname	0	1	2	0	3	0	3	1	2	29	11	63	0	21	0	0	26	3	6	13	1	1	0	2	2	0	1	1
Sweden	0	2	0	0	9	0	1	5	2	74	3	42	1	8	0	0	32	3	22	2	1	2	0	0	2	0	0	1
Switzerland	0	1	0	0	9	0	1	3	2	112	3	60	0	11	1	0	44	5	21	3	0	2	0	0	2	0	0	0
Syria	2	9	14	0	23	2	16	13	61	527	134	348	1	39	0	1	136	36	133	24	9	43	2	1	13	0	29	23
Taiwan	4	3	4	0	19	0	9	2	8	146	53	127	0	30	1	1	28	6	83	3	2	14	1	1	9	0	0	2
Tajikistan	1	8	27	40	119	0	115	4	25	801	2,427	857	0	123	7	2	1,093	118	1,095	1,307	86	31	122	6	148	0	14	39
Tanzania	191	293	2,796	81	1,144	2,034	711	191	532	10,603	10,073	10,680	13	7,272	15	134	7,625	1,642	6,730	6,200	546	498	1,539	899	681	11,449	3,953	321
Thailand	9	8	33	2	79	3	48	14	35	809	423	589	0	337	1	2	224	57	167	208	10	94	20	48	156	0	63	54
Togo	430	26	89	1	54	178	61	21	84	958	1,304	1,627	2	741	0	6	2,062	221	384	1,426	53	168	117	37	124	2,278	153	27
Tokelau	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tonga	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	4	6	8	0	2	0	0	1	2	3	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0
Trinidad and Tobago	0	2	1	0	3	0	2	1	2	54	9	49	0	20	0	0	17	2	10	3	1	1	0	2	1	0	0	2
Tunisia	1	1	3	1	23	1	15	6	26	507	105	548	0	35	0	2	86	7	109	25	8	30	2	0	10	0	15	18
Turkey	6	25	68	6	215	10	53	59	197	3,550	448	2,667	1	637	9	12	490	47	685	239	18	167	7	16	52	0	181	75
Turkmenistan	0	2	3	7	30	0	61	7	13	572	781	464	2	68	0	1	438	10	62	43	14	6	19	3	22	0	0	12
Tuvalu	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Uganda	61	171	2,179	72	978	326	276	124	430	6,881	4,848	8,801	10	5,480	2	73	11,470	2,097	4,956	3,899	372	536	1,268	1,112	575	33,277	2,894	297
Ukraine	1	17	3	2	73	0	19	3	10	516	121	434	3	172	0	0	161	36	42	11	20	16	5	17	25	0	0	34
United Arab Emirates	0	0	1	0	7	1	1	1	9	140	21	102	0	3	0	0	7	3	7	11	1	9	0	2	3	0	2	2
United Kingdom	0	7	1	0	69	0	15	37	28	715	54	1,102	0	40	0	1	193	33	39	10	6	9	0	4	9	0	48	16
United States	2	601	29	4	380	0	158	237	436	4,542	318	6,114	26	676	43	8	1,402	94	1,482	98	97	391	2	29	352	0	2	94
United States Virgin Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Uruguay	0	1	2	0	5	0	1	1	2	86	11	51	0	18	0	0	11	2	7	7	1	3	0	1	3	0	1	2
Uzbekistan	0	10	19	15	244	1	165	36	52	2,597	4,700	2,930	1	603	2	4	1,781	41	511	82	84	108	85	12	506	0	1	28
Vanuatu	0	0	3	0	1	9	1	0	2	20	28	36	0	4	0	0	19	2	11	8	0	1	1	2	2	0	11	1
Venezuela	0	61	171	5	100	0	57	29	60	1,720	563	2,572	0	732	8	4	796	117	150	471	20	121	9	18	93	39	8	91
Vietnam	26	9	74	2	266	12	211	41	96	1,798	2,209	3,766	0	1,614	5	2	1,190	307	790	89	56	182	117	18	1,319	0	191	119
Yemen	25	34	703	84	235	245	263	52	634	9,424	2,535	11,520	3	490	7	30	1,790	184	1,893	1,300	211	1,190	82	33	210	154	126	103
Zambia	23	65	751	23	310	737	147	53	101	2,835	2,543	2,338	3	1,868	0	35	3,724	597	1,446	2,258	147	153	408	358	232	3,224	1,093	213
Zimbabwe	103	41	1,792	18	134	33	93	28	94	1,391	3,826	3,996	2	1,228	1	6	1,849	304	2,071	1,972	135	133	793	326	148	1,021	461	196
Other
Africa	31,358	5,548	56,030	2,535	15,471	42,490	12,970	4,701	17,289	209,655	271,372	322,109	366	136,840	154	1,480	336,473	61,557	105,303	251,113	11,652	19,838	40,077	17,954	22,533	416,879	44,992	6,456
African Region (WHO)	31,255	5,289	52,394	2,124	14,130	29,501	11,869	4,160	13,445	182,668	253,726	294,899	351	131,490	125	1,320	324,372	58,877	97,786	236,234	10,820	18,268	37,255	17,222	21,292	414,124	41,830	5,786
Americas (WHO)	17	1,727	2,884	86	2,535	0	2,089	893	2,155	39,017	12,665	34,940	39	14,445	786	105	15,787	1,579	9,851	8,257	529	2,058	441	750	2,067	165	1,643	1,870
Asia	1,510	2,121	17,663	11,485	15,129	5,542	9,767	2,568	13,130	184,186	211,668	372,771	433	79,391	942	353	247,729	27,413	104,398	78,661	3,777	11,970	14,381	1,632	25,181	6,989	24,840	7,810
East Asia & Pacific (WB)	260	699	2,851	181	5,745	405	5,074	834	3,386	57,180	41,613	61,269	87	20,958	279	107	35,318	6,954	11,801	16,178	966	5,300	3,338	851	10,248	429	7,116	2,168
Eastern Mediterranean (WHO)	600	938	8,289	2,101	5,272	17,168	2,381	1,388	9,043	76,967	65,204	112,955	42	21,628	266	309	120,774	12,982	39,471	36,260	1,962	5,486	8,427	1,275	6,607	4,551	8,167	2,211
Europe	3	208	40	15	870	2	196	214	258	7,202	1,317	6,989	18	1,455	17	16	2,222	336	1,178	397	152	275	37	210	246	0	59	472
Europe & Central Asia (WB)	9	266	178	92	1,618	12	719	336	586	16,835	11,452	16,391	28	3,359	38	37	7,065	603	4,323	2,322	434	660	323	251	1,135	0	266	728
European Region (WHO)	9	271	178	92	1,636	12	721	346	590	17,004	11,460	16,505	28	3,375	38	37	7,097	609	4,369	2,339	436	665	323	252	1,138	0	266	734
High-income countries	8	758	118	12	1,222	3	362	501	797	13,009	1,374	13,613	40	1,834	68	22	3,632	343	3,104	645	200	767	27	109	635	0	126	286
Latin America & Caribbean (WB)	15	1,119	2,855	83	2,128	0	1,921	640	1,700	34,139	12,336	28,439	12	13,738	743	97	14,198	1,478	8,249	8,144	425	1,650	439	721	1,700	165	1,641	1,775
Low-income countries	13,344	2,400	41,049	1,499	8,459	35,400	6,652	2,212	8,678	125,348	123,041	160,894	169	71,106	250	933	178,583	29,467	66,348	119,688	6,290	12,087	23,245	6,850	12,161	217,589	26,484	3,671
Lower-middle-income countries	19,313	4,701	31,376	12,427	18,467	12,644	15,208	4,784	20,266	240,692	349,212	503,850	545	140,956	1,475	846	392,393	58,499	136,889	208,357	8,683	16,291	30,383	11,626	31,759	205,896	40,529	10,123
Middle East & North Africa (WB)	76	316	1,082	227	1,566	329	1,041	577	4,053	34,000	11,873	34,971	12	3,269	26	138	5,413	739	5,503	5,751	624	3,133	239	162	869	172	1,678	819
North America	6	1,261	1,588	65	1,305	0	1,216	534	1,356	18,704	7,286	17,866	33	7,041	750	63	7,689	958	4,117	6,147	342	1,194	243	404	1,166	85	682	899
North America (WB)	2	609	30	4	409	0	169	254	455	4,909	334	6,533	27	718	44	8	1,594	101	1,614	116	104	408	2	30	368	0	2	95
Oceania	8	41	115	4	106	80	28	55	288	2,756	4,456	2,388	3	344	2	12	1,096	204	1,048	1,693	105	165	197	29	315	251	540	91
South America	11	468	1,297	22	1,233	0	874	360	799	20,346	5,384	17,108	5	7,415	36	42	8,102	621	5,746	2,113	188	865	198	347	902	80	961	971
South Asia (WB)	1,207	1,161	13,985	11,122	7,954	4,949	3,749	1,476	8,408	102,877	159,997	283,790	333	54,431	626	174	205,122	19,973	87,261	60,166	2,259	4,621	10,842	686	13,935	6,657	17,544	5,055
South-East Asia (WHO)	884	882	11,526	9,619	6,216	1,279	5,987	1,219	5,935	91,732	132,091	245,844	319	51,347	505	125	116,673	14,510	63,677	51,176	1,898	4,484	7,422	418	12,852	5,188	16,522	4,993
Sub-Saharan Africa (WB)	31,325	5,476	55,753	2,418	14,689	42,417	12,376	4,315	14,531	192,889	263,872	307,793	360	136,012	146	1,406	334,596	61,241	103,029	247,439	11,402	18,534	39,950	17,874	22,089	416,861	43,828	6,055
Upper-middle-income countries	229	1,789	4,189	189	5,965	67	2,829	934	3,379	63,799	27,854	60,873	105	18,591	109	167	28,703	2,780	15,449	11,433	1,043	5,162	1,478	1,991	5,789	799	4,935	2,619
Western Pacific (WHO)	127	537	1,457	104	4,302	152	1,993	422	1,943	35,275	26,273	33,914	79	10,160	181	70	18,573	2,526	6,536	5,849	567	3,332	1,263	657	6,376	256	3,642	1,102
World	32,898	9,661	76,795	14,129	34,141	48,138	25,077	8,440	33,162	443,282	501,910	739,671	859	232,656	1,926	1,970	603,606	91,147	221,941	340,429	16,231	34,339	55,167	20,594	50,391	424,386	72,148	16,715

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