Table 2.

Disease burden with the expected births and the number of known patients.

Countries	Expected thalassaemia births/1000 live births	Expected SCD births/1000 live births	Number of known or estimated patients with thalassaemia syndromes	Number of known or estimated patients with sickle cell syndromes
(1) Austria	0.0015	0.00008	NA	NA
(2) Belgium	0.002	0.0035	100	400
(3) Cyprus	5.5	0.0018	639	40
(4) Denmark	0.0018	0.00004	NA	NA
(5) France	0.0016	0.0018	571	10000
(6) Germany	0.0016	0.0001	1500	3000
(7) Greece	1.6	0.009	3241	1080
(8) Italy	0.46	0.11	7000	6000
(9) The Netherlands	0.0018	0.0008	250	750
(10) Spain	0.067	0.0011	113	>200
(11) Sweden	0.0025	0.00021	50	100
(12) UK	0.0018	0.0013	920	15000