Table 5.

Impact of rotavirus vaccines on diarrheal deaths if introduced at level of DTP-3, stratified by region^a

World Bank Region	Diarrheal deaths prevented		Proportion prevented
	Total	Per 100,000 children aged younger than 5 years	Rotavirus deaths, %	Diarrheal deaths, %
Africa	95,623	63.0	40	12
Asia	67,803	18.6	47	14
Europe	136	0.4	80	31
Latin America and Caribbean	2,145	3.8	31	11
Oceania	121	4.3	37	15

Note:

^aNorth America has not been included because rotavirus vaccines were already reaching 88% of the children in the region.