Table 2.

MS prevalence stratified by age group and gender

Age group categories	Prevalence per 100,000 by age group [95% CI]
	total	male	female
20–24	68.88 [68.09–69.67]	58.08 [56.97–59.19]	80.05 [78.32–81.78]
25–29	140.01 [139.19–140.82]	40.82 [39.68–41.96]	242.46 [240.69–244.24]
30–34	159.36 [158.55–160.17]	81.68 [80.54–82.82]	238.12 [236.36–239.88]
35–39	160.59 [159.85–161.33]	107.09 [106.02–108.15]	211.26 [209.67–212.85]
40–44	103.18 [102.51–103.86]	88.52 [87.55–89.48]	116.85 [115.42–118.29]
45–49	55.37 [54.72–56.01]	47.80 [46.87–48.73]	62.27 [60.90–63.63]
50–54	54.51 [53.85–55.17]	21.38 [20.43–22.33]	84.85 [83.45–86.25]
55–59	39.42 [38.77–40.06]	21.04 [20.10–21.99]	55.60 [54.24–56.96]
60–64	16.54 [15.89–17.19]	14.09 [13.15–15.04]	18.70 [17.33–20.06]
65–69	3.51 [2.84–4.18]	0.00 [0.00–0.00]	6.55 [5.15–7.95]
Total	143.45 [143.21–143.67]	92.73 [92.39–93.07]	185.76 [185.44–186.05]

The highest value in each gender group is highlighted. CI, confidence interval.