Table 2.
Average reported insecticide use for vector control according to method of application and class of insecticide by WHO region (2000–2009), in metric tons of active ingredient per year.
| Residual spraying | Space spraying | Treatment of nets (PY)b | Larvicidingc | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WHO regiona | OC | OP | C | PY | OP | PY | OP | PY | ||||||||||
| Africa | 805 | 19 | 19 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| Americas | 0 | 97 | 4 | 164 | 276 | 66 | 0 | 82 | 0 | |||||||||
| Eastern Mediterranean | 0 | 26 | 5 | 15 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 20 | 1 | |||||||||
| Europe | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| South-East Asia | 3,623 | 483 | 2 | 39 | 15 | 1 | 4 | 49 | 0 | |||||||||
| Western Pacific | 0 | 1 | 0 | 39 | 292 | 27 | 14 | 9 | 0 | |||||||||
| All | 4,429 | 627 | 30 | 282 | 584 | 100 | 31 | 163 | 2 | |||||||||
| Abbreviations: C, carbamates; OC, organochlorines (DDT only); OP, organophosphates; PY, pyrethroids. aCanada and the United States (Americas region) and Australia and Japan (Western Pacific region) were not targeted, whereas in the European region, only Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan were targeted. bConventional application of insecticides to treat bed nets or curtains (excluding insecticides used in factory-made LNs). cThe use of insecticides to treat aquatic breeding sites of mosquitoes. | ||||||||||||||||||