Table 1. Countries with available vital registration (VR) data^a on tuberculosis (TB) mortality, by World Health Organization (WHO) region, 1991–2009.

WHO region	Countries with data on TB deaths from a VR system	High-TB-burden countriesb with TB deaths from VR systems	No. of countries in region
Africa	2c	0	46
Americas	28	1	44
Eastern Mediterranean	4	0	22
Europe	47	1	54
South-East Asia	0	0	11
Western Pacific	8	1	36
All	89	3	213

^a Data from VR systems with at least 80% population coverage and less than 20% of all registered deaths attributed to ill-defined causes in any given year.

^b The 22 high-burden countries, by WHO region, are: African Region – Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Zimbabwe; Eastern Mediterranean Region – Afghanistan and Pakistan; European Region – Russian Federation; Region of the Americas – Brazil; South-East Asia Region – Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Thailand; Western Pacific Region – Cambodia, China, Philippines, Viet Nam.

^c South Africa was not included in this count despite the availability of TB mortality data from vital registers because many deaths from human immunodeficiency virus infection are miscoded as TB deaths.¹⁴ This precludes the meaningful use of such mortality data.

Source: Mathers CD et al.¹⁵