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. 2023 Aug 31;9:e46383. doi: 10.2196/46383

Table 2.

WOAHa Member Countries reporting avian influenza outbreaks by region and income classification from January 2013 to June 2022.

Region All WOAH Member Countriesb (n=182) Proportion of all WOAH Member Countries reporting outbreaksc (n=95) Distribution of reporting Member Countriesd (n=95) Reported outbreaks (n=21,249)
Hemisphere, n (%)

Northern 154 (84.6) 89 (57.8) 89 (93.7) 20,680 (97.3)

Southern 28 (15.4) 6 (21.4) 6 (6.3) 569 (2.7)
World Bank region, n (%)

East Asia and Pacific 24 (13.2) 13 (54.2) 13 (13.7) 5815 (27.4)

Europe and Central Asia 51 (28.0) 40 (78.4) 40 (42.1) 10,550 (49.6)

Latin America and the Caribbean 29 (15.9) 4 (13.8) 4 (4.2) 188 (0.9)

Middle East and North Africa 20 (11.0) 10 (50.0) 10 (10.5) 1484 (7.0)

North America 2 (1.1) 2 (100.0) 2 (2.1) 1057 (5.0)

South Asia 8 (4.4) 6 (75.0) 6 (6.3) 537 (2.5)

Sub-Saharan Africa 48 (26.4) 20 (41.7) 20 (21.1) 1618 (7.6)
World Bank income classification, n (%)

High income 59 (32.4) 39 (66.1) 39 (41.1) 14,336 (67.5)

Upper middle 47 (25.8) 23 (48.9) 23 (24.2) 3564 (16.8)

Lower middle 47 (25.8) 24 (51.1) 24 (25.3) 3233 (15.2)

Low income 29 (15.9) 9 (31.0) 9 (9.5) 116 (0.5)
Poultry productione,% 99.9 87.1 N/Af N/A
Populationg 7,770,202,146 6,452,817,271 (83.0) N/A N/A

aWOAH: World Organisation for Animal Health.

bDenominator is all WOAH Member Countries.

cDenominator is all WOAH Member Countries in that hemisphere/region/income classification.

dDenominator is all WOAH Member Countries that reported an outbreak.

eProportion of world poultry production based on most recently reported data from FAOSTAT for 2020.

fN/A: not applicable.

gBased on most recently reported data from 2021, Republic of Niue and Cook Islands are excluded from human population totals as data were not available.