Table 4. Quality of death registration systems covering countries and population in 2004, by WHO region.
| WHO region | Quality of death registration systema |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good | Intermediate | Poor | ||
| African | ||||
| Number of countries (%) | 2 (4) | 2 (4) | 42 (91) | 46 (100) |
| Population 2004, in millions (%) | 1 (0.2) | 80 (11) | 641 (89) | 722 (100) |
| Americas | ||||
| Number of countries | 24 (55) | 7 (16) | 13 (30) | 44 (100) |
| Population 2004, in millions (%) | 567 (64) | 275 (31) | 38 (4) | 880 (100) |
| Eastern Mediterranean | ||||
| Number of countries | 2 (9) | 7 (32) | 13 (59) | 22 (100) |
| Population 2004, in millions (%) | 5 (1) | 177 (33) | 348 (66) | 530 (100) |
| European | ||||
| Number of countries | 41 (79) | 9 (17) | 2 (4) | 52 (100) |
| Population 2004, in millions (%) | 735 (83) | 146 (17) | 0.1 (0.0) | 881 (100) |
| South-East Asia | ||||
| Number of countries | 1 (9) | 3 (27) | 7 (64) | 11 (100) |
| Population 2004, in millions (%) | 1 087 (67) | 85 (5) | 461 (28) | 1 633 (100) |
| Western Pacific | ||||
| Number of countries | 11 (31) | 8 (22) | 17 (47) | 36 (100) |
| Population 2004, in millions (%) | 313 (18) | 1 309 (75) | 117 (7) | 1 740 (100) |
| Global | ||||
| Number of countries | 81 (38) | 36 (17) | 94 (40) | 211 (100) |
| Population 2004, in millions (%) | 2 710 (42) | 2 071 (32) | 1 606 (25) | 6 387 (100) |
Source: Mathers et al.9 a Good = cause of death registration completeness > 70% and ill-defined codes < 20%; Intermediate = cause of death registration completeness 50–70%; or completeness > 70% and ⩾ 20% ill-defined codes; Poor = death registration completeness < 50% or no information submitted to WHO by December 2003.