Table 2.
Total population and proportion of population without access to surgery by Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation global burden of disease region
| Total population (millions) | Full tree | Selective tree | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Population with no access (millions) | 95% posterior CI | Proportion with no access | 95% posterior CI | Population with no access (millions) | 95% posterior CI | Proportion with no access | 95% posterior CI | ||
| Andean Latin America | 57 | 47 | (41–52) | 83·1% | 72·9–91·7 | 34 | 27–42 | 60·1 | 46·9–73·7 |
| Australasia | 28 | 3 | (1–4) | 9·2% | 4·1–15·0 | 1 | 0–2 | 2·3% | 0·8–6·9 |
| Caribbean | 42 | 37 | (34–40) | 88·2% | 80·7–93·5 | 28 | 25–32 | 67·0% | 58·0–75·8 |
| Central Asia | 86 | 76 | (71–80) | 88·2% | 82·1–93·4 | 74 | 70–78 | 85·9% | 81·4–90·0 |
| Central Europe | 114 | 64 | (53–74) | 56·2% | 46·6–64·6 | 40 | 34–47 | 34·9% | 29·5–41·3 |
| Central Latin America | 246 | 160 | (123–191) | 65·0% | 49·9–77·8 | 82 | 60–112 | 33·4% | 24·2–45·6 |
| Central sub-Saharan Africa | 100 | 100 | (100–100) | 99·6% | 99·1–99·9 | 99 | 97–100 | 98·7% | 97·0–99·6 |
| East Asia | 1405 | 1119 | (825–1319) | 79·6% | 58·7–93·8 | 1052 | 825–1236 | 74·8% | 58·7–88·0 |
| Eastern Europe | 208 | 165 | (135–186) | 79·2% | 64·9–89·4 | 145 | 115–171 | 69·8% | 55·4–81·9 |
| Eastern sub-Saharan Africa | 396 | 394 | (385–396) | 99·4% | 97·2–100·0 | 392 | 384–395 | 99·0% | 96·9–99·8 |
| High-income Asia Pacific | 183 | 97 | (57–135) | 52·8% | 31·3–73·9 | 15 | 9–30 | 8·0% | 4·7–16·4 |
| High-income North America | 351 | 1 | (0–5) | 0·2% | 0·0–1·5 | 1 | 0–5 | 0·2% | 0·0–1·3 |
| North Africa and Middle East | 468 | 366 | (335–394) | 78·3% | 71·5–84·2 | 287 | 261–314 | 61·4% | 55·7–67·1 |
| Oceania | 10 | 9 | (8–9) | 95·6% | 87·8–98·7 | 9 | 8–9 | 89·5% | 82·2–93·8 |
| South Asia | 1650 | 1636 | (1594–1649) | 99·1% | 96·6–100·0 | 1608 | 1540–1642 | 97·4% | 93·3–99·5 |
| Southeast Asia | 632 | 576 | (547–599) | 91·1% | 86·6–94·8 | 512 | 471–549 | 81·0% | 74·5–86·9 |
| Southern Latin America | 62 | 2 | (0–8) | 3·2% | 0·1–13·5 | 2 | 0–8 | 3·2% | 0·3–12·6 |
| Southern sub-Saharan Africa | 75 | 37 | (21–53) | 48·9% | 28·1–70·7 | 27 | 15–39 | 35·7% | 20·3–51·9 |
| Tropical Latin America | 207 | 26 | (7–72) | 12·4% | 3·3–34·7 | 26 | 8–65 | 12·4% | 3·9–31·6 |
| Western Europe | 424 | 25 | (11–44) | 5·9% | 2·7–10·4 | 10 | 5–19 | 2·5% | 1·2–4·4 |
| Western sub-Saharan Africa | 367 | 364 | (360–366) | 99·4% | 98·2–99·9 | 356 | 345–361 | 97·1% | 94·1·9–98·6 |
| Global* | 7125 | 5312 | (5005–5535) | 74·6% | 70·3–77·7 | 4797 | 4564–5014 | 67·3% | 64·1–70·4 |
CI=credible interval.
*
The sum of all categories may not equal the global estimate due to rounding.