Table 1.

Incidence, mortality and mortality-to-incidence ratio (MIR) across MENA region countries, 1990–2019

	1990			2019			% Change during 1990–2019
	Incidence (/100,000)	Mortality (/100,000)	MIR	Incidence (/100,000)	Mortality (/100,000)	MIR	Incidence (%)	Mortality (%)	MIR (%)
Low-income economies
Yemen	13.72	5.86	0.43	11.64	4.81	0.41	-15.18	-17.86	-3.04
Afghanistan	26.64	13.79	0.52	18.01	8.87	0.49	-32.38	-35.71	-5.02
Sudan	22.07	9.47	0.43	16.35	6.36	0.39	-25.92	-32.8	-9.32
Syria	22.13	8.25	0.37	18.79	5.61	0.3	-15.12	-31.99	-19.84
Lower middle-income economies
Palestine	20.35	7.02	0.35	16.21	4.65	0.29	-20.37	-33.72	-16.81
Egypt	14.46	7.11	0.49	12.26	4.21	0.34	-15.23	-40.72	-29.94
Morocco	7.7	3.62	0.47	8.8	2.82	0.32	14.27	-22.04	-31.7
Algeria	16.01	6.87	0.43	14.68	3.91	0.27	-8.35	-43.08	-37.76
Iran	22.91	8.66	0.38	23.05	5.36	0.23	0.62	-38.1	-38.62
Tunisia	12.09	4.47	0.37	11.84	2.52	0.21	-2.04	-43.66	-42.43
Upper middle-income economies
Iraq	23.65	8.84	0.37	18.4	5.39	0.29	-22.21	-38.99	-21.66
Libya	14.86	6.13	0.41	13.96	4.32	0.31	-6.08	-29.51	-24.94
Jordan	16.58	5.47	0.33	19.25	4	0.21	16.13	-26.92	-36.97
Turkey	25.96	10.83	0.42	24.99	5.3	0.21	-3.73	-51.06	-49.16
Lebanon	15.18	5.91	0.39	27.65	4.92	0.18	82.21	-16.71	-54.24
High-income economies
United Arab Emirates	13.75	5.99	0.44	12.7	3.72	0.29	-7.63	-37.9	-32.64
Kuwait	27.03	6.37	0.24	21.79	3.24	0.15	-19.42	-49.22	-36.86
Bahrain	11.41	4.89	0.43	15.02	3.41	0.23	31.72	-30.34	-47.09
Oman	11.61	4.17	0.36	18.75	3.51	0.19	61.48	-15.76	-47.91
Qatar	12.31	4.75	0.39	18.18	3.16	0.17	47.59	-33.35	-54.81
Saudi Arabia	6.63	3.18	0.48	11.37	2.25	0.2	71.4	-29.31	-58.75
MENA region	18.79	7.86	0.42	16.59	5.04	0.3	-11.71	-35.9	-27.27