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. 2024 Mar 19;10:e48738. doi: 10.2196/48738

Table 2.

Survey-based population size estimates by location and key population.


Confidence score Population size estimate (95% CI)


FSWa in location A FSW in location B MSMb in location B FSW in location C MSM in location C
Prior c 800 (300-2000) 3000 (1800-3400) 2416 (850-4000) 900 (825-1500) 610 (475-685)
Estimate method

Unique object 80 679 (525-1024) 382 (228-949) 221 (174-904) 690 (483-1191) 379 (280-681)

Event 5 162 (126-249) 144 (69-354) 96 (81-205) 205 (146-378) 122 (87-276)

Service 1 60 849 (630-1369) 1984 (1033-7367) 515 (384-4398) 1540 (1181-2260) 2322 (1158-6985)

Service 2 60 2766 (1995-4622) 4459 (3082-10,219) 1917 (3493-1218) 2937 (2127-4613) 1917 (1394-4093)

Service 3 60 668 (500-1082) 5449 (1769-30,997) 778 (660-5256) 2004 (1138-5916) 156 (97-494)

Service 4 60 N/Ad 5900 (2674-45,597) N/A N/A N/A

SS-PSEe,f 70 674 (318-2426) 2196 (1651-2382) 2205 (382-10,409) 1057 (576-3369) 664 (405-1614)
Consensus: confidence scalede 890 (614-1342) 2744 (2046-3768) 1412 (727-3111) 1038 (781-1333) 612 (517-730)
Consensus: unscalede 729 (403-1335) 2821 (2080-3856) 1638 (812-3416) 922 (701-1205) 606 (508-724)

aFSW: female sex workers.

bMSM: men who have sex with men.

cNot applicable (this refers to the fact that confidence scores are only applicable to the estimates).

dN/A: not applicable (this refers to the fact that an estimate of type Service 4 was not collected).

e95% CI refers to the credible interval.

fSS-PSE: successive sampling population size estimation.