Table 3. Completeness of national death registration, the number of deaths due to different causes and the proportion of deaths assigned to various partially specified causes for selected countries included in the WHO mortality database, 2000–2007^a.

	Region,b country and year of most recent data
	Asia Pacific, high-income countries	Central Asia	East Asia	South-East Asia	Australasia	Caribbean	Central and Eastern Europe	Western Europe	Latin America	Northern Africa and the Middle East	North America, high-income countries	Southern sub-Saharan Africa
	Japan	Uzbekistan	China, Hong Kong SAR	Thailand	Australia	Cuba	Poland	Germany	Brazil	Egypt	USA	South Africa
	2007	2005	2007	2002	2004	2006	2006	2006	2005	2000	2005	2005
Completeness of death registration	High	High	High	High	High	High	High	High	Medium	High	High	Medium
All-cause deaths, No.	1 083 796	140 585	38 678	380 364	132 314	84 824	368 285	830 227	1 006 827	382 138	2 448 017	591 213
% of all-cause deaths ascribed to an unknown cause (ICD-10 codes: R95–R99)	0	1	1	14	1	1	4	2	9	1	1	11
Injury deaths, No.	75 380	10 142	2 150	42 803	7 970	7 047	25 363	33 024	127 608	16 709	176 406	53 124
% of injury deaths ascribed to unspecified mechanism and intent	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
% injury deaths ascribed to undetermined intent	3	13	6	24	1	4	10	7	9	42	3	66
Deaths due to unintentional injury, No.	41 937	6 356	827	24 117	5 603	4 670	16 134	19 993	59 519	9 424	120 462	12 853
% of unintentional injury deaths ascribed to an unspecified unintentional injury	7	11	11	13	18	0	5	5	4	0	5	19
Deaths due to transport injury, No.	9 968	2 395	197	13 389	1 687	1 315	5 959	5 657	36 592	5 446	48 047	5 454
% of transport injury deaths ascribed to unspecified transport injury	1	3	1	0	0	0	3	0	1	6	0	0
Deaths due to road injury, No.	9 434	2 277	175	13 251	1 582	1 255	5 456	5 409	35 736	4 381	45 812	5 354
% of road injury deaths ascribed to unspecified unintentional road injury	4	7	0	39	7	2	11	28	26	1	25	87
% of road injury deaths of vehicle occupants ascribed to unspecified unintentional road injury not including pedestrian or bicyclist	6	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	2	45	16	10
Deaths due to non-transport injury, No.	29 205	3 237	538	7 601	2 921	3 343	9 446	13 305	20 477	3 976	65 864	4 911
% of non-transport injury deaths ascribed to unspecified unintentional non-transport injury	5	0	0	0	2	21	0	0	0	4	1	0
Deaths due to intentional injury, No.	31 159	1 959	1 185	8 328	2 278	2 083	6 603	10 730	56 701	315	51 202	5 435
Deaths due to interpersonal injury, No.	600	735	36	3 402	162	684	558	454	47 590	50	18 124	4 950
% of interpersonal injury deaths ascribed to an unspecified mechanism	6	14	6	19	11	3	5	7	6	4	11	11
Deaths due to self-inflicted injury, No.	30 557	1 221	1 149	4 905	2 114	1 398	6 045	10 270	8 552	49	32 637	462
% of self-inflicted injury deaths ascribed to an unspecified mechanism	0	4	0	8	0	0	0	2	4	4	1	5
Deaths due to legal intervention, No.	1	2	0	21	2	1	0	2	559	216	414	17
% of legal intervention deaths ascribed to an unspecified mechanism	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0
Deaths due to collective violence, No.	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	27	6

ICD, International classification of diseases and related health problems; SAR, Special Administrative Region; USA, United States of America; WHO, World Health Organization.

^a Boldfaced table entries highlight instances where the percentage of injury deaths ascribed to a partially specified cause exceeds 20%, which is the upper limit for describing the data quality as high.

^b Countries were grouped into the 21 global regions defined by the 2005 Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries and Risk Factors Study.¹⁰ The most populous country in each region from which data were analysed is shown. However, only one country is listed from the four Latin America regions and one from central and eastern Europe combined. The figures for all 83 countries analysed in the study are included in Appendix A (available at: http://www.globalburdenofinjuries.org/gimd/Quality_Global_Injury_Mortality_Data.pdf).