Table 1.

Incidence and mortality for geographic regions and World Bank country income groups.

	Incident cases	Age-standardized incidence ratea	Deaths	Age-standardized mortality ratea
Regions
Asia	16572	1.2	9332	0.65
Europe	3645	2.4	1184	0.76
North America	2922	3.3	1593	0.77
Latin America and the Caribbean	3200	1.6	616	0.69
Africa	4238	0.62	2550	0.37
Oceania	189	1.5	62	0.47
World Bank Income Groups
High-	6662	2.5	1854	0.69
Upper-middle-	11745	1.5	6138	0.78
Lower-middle-	10624	0.88	6191	0.51
Low-	1734	0.56	1154	0.37
World	30766	1.2	15337	0.59

MIRR: Mortality:Incidence Rate Ratio.

^aPer 100,000 children at risk.