Table 1

Global Burden of Disease 2000 (GBD 2000) project: regions and sub regions

WHO region
Mortality stratum
Sub region
WHO Member States

AFRO
D
AfrD
Algeria, Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, Comoros, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Niger, Nigeria, Sao Tome And Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Togo, Djibouti, Somalia, Sudan
AFRO
E
AfrE
Botswana, Burundi, Central African Republic, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic Of The Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe
AMRO
A
AmrA
Canada, United States Of America
AMRO
B
AmrB
Antigua And Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Saint Kitts And Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent And The Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad And Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela Cuba
AMRO
D
AmrD
Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Nicaragua, Peru
EMRO
B
EmrB
Bahrain, Cyprus, Iran (Islamic Republic Of), Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates
EMRO
D
EmrD
Egypt, Iraq, Morocco, Yemen
EURO
A
EurA
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
B1
EurB1
Albania, Bosnia And Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Georgia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, The Former Yugoslav Republic Of Macedonia, Turkey, Yugoslavia
EURO
B2
EurB2
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
EURO
C
EurC
Belarus, Estonia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Republic of Moldova, Russian Federation, Ukraine
SEARO
B
SearB
Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand Malaysia, Philippines Brunei Darussalam, Singapore
SEARO
D
SearD
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal Afghanistan, Pakistan
WPRO
A
WprA
Australia, Japan, New Zealand
WPRO
B1
WprB1
China, Mongolia, Republic Of Korea DPR Korea
WPRO
B2
WprB2
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Viet Nam Myanmar
WPRO
B3
WprB3
Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Island s, Micronesia (Federated States Of), Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu

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