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. 2025 Jul 10;13:1598660. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1598660

Table 2.

Incident, prevalent, and years lived with disability (YLDs) rate due to forearm fractures in patients from 1990 to 2021 (per 100,000 population).

Region Incidence Prevalence YLDs
Year 2021 (95% UI) Change (%) Year 2021 (95% UI) Change (%) Year 2021 (95% UI) Change (%)
Global 402.35 (319.86,505.21) −16.75 76.22 (62.45,92.62) −15.66 2.51 (1.54,3.93) −15.69
High-income Asia Pacific 313.44 (228.19,416.96) −26.74 56.42 (43.39,71.46) −26.56 1.86 (1.13,3) −26.57
High-income North America 306.6 (228.67,402.31) −15.32 63.33 (51.73,77.46) −8.96 2.1 (1.29,3.33) −8.71
Western Europe 458.91 (323.65,631.21) −11.01 84.18 (64.26,105.51) −12.2 2.76 (1.65,4.41) −12.39
Australasia 594.58 (428.55,792.88) −4.83 103.55 (79.19,129.77) −4.89 3.35 (1.98,5.37) −5.11
Andean Latin America 399.69 (321.22,485.96) −7.08 68.92 (55.66,83.84) −5.92 2.24 (1.35,3.55) −5.64
Tropical Latin America 585.42 (462.38,738.52) −23.93 104.16 (83.92,126.71) −23.03 3.39 (2.03,5.25) −22.96
Central Latin America 499.4 (396.56,617.5) −30.64 88.07 (71.14,108.15) −30.85 2.87 (1.73,4.56) −30.9
Southern Latin America 366.66 (272.14,471.41) 3.34 64.27 (50.18,80.53) 2.17 2.09 (1.25,3.35) 1.84
Caribbean 436.1 (362.5,523.7) 13.88 79.21 (65.9,95.07) 13.87 2.58 (1.61,4.06) 13.16
Central Europe 909.72 (720.21,1119.3) −22.81 154.7 (124.07,192.46) −24.48 4.99 (2.99,8.05) −24.67
Eastern Europe 943.29 (755.11,1173.17) −19.81 162.13 (130.19,200.07) −20.08 5.25 (3.12,8.3) −20.25
Central Asia 515.48 (417.89,624.25) −21.34 87.19 (70.45,107.33) −21.13 2.82 (1.71,4.44) −21.27
North Africa and Middle East 486.29 (399.4,591.02) −11 84.72 (69.1,104.13) −10.72 2.75 (1.67,4.37) −11
South Asia 412.64 (327.21,524.1) −10.95 82.21 (67.94,100.74) −6.96 2.7 (1.67,4.1) −6.41
Southeast Asia 310.83 (253.13,380.06) −16.01 58.39 (48.06,70.2) −14.8 1.92 (1.19,3.02) −14.67
East Asia 397.63 (312.39,507.23) 7.91 75.85 (61.85,92.99) 4.84 2.51 (1.53,3.93) 3.6
Oceania 357.76 (287.63,449.57) 20.67 69.79 (57.99,85.17) 21.2 2.31 (1.41,3.56) 20.76
Western Sub-Saharan Africa 225.5 (186.58,272.76) −5.48 42.89 (35.55,51.41) −3.72 1.42 (0.86,2.21) −3.25
Eastern Sub-Saharan Africa 221.73 (185.08,265.61) −30.62 42.54 (35.28,50.94) −22.78 1.4 (0.87,2.18) −21.05
Central Sub-Saharan Africa 225.4 (187.62,270.76) −9.37 44.56 (37.2,52.31) −6.01 1.48 (0.91,2.33) −5.37
Southern Sub-Saharan Africa 247.45 (209.04,294.67) −27.42 48.52 (40.9,57.84) −29.62 1.61 (0.98,2.54) −30.41

Overall change represents the relative change between 1990 and 2021. The 95% UIs (uncertainty intervals) represent the range within which there is a 95% probability that the true value lies. Values in bold indicate regions experiencing substantial changes (>30%) during the study period.