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Published in final edited form as: Lancet Infect Dis. 2016 Feb 10;16(6):712–723. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(16)00026-8

Table 1. Dengue deaths and mortality rates for 1990 and 2013.

1990 2013

Deaths (95% UI) Mortality rate (95% UI; per million) Deaths (95% UI) Mortality rate (95% UI; per million)
Total 8,657 (5,484, 10,819) 1·64 (1·04, 2·04) 9,110 (5,630, 10,842) 1·27 (0·79, 1·52)
Sex
Male 4,349 (2,516, 5,801) 1·63 (0·94, 2·18) 4,433 (2,515, 5,340) 1·23 (0·70, 1·48)
Female 4,308 (2,556, 5,611) 1·64 (0·97, 2·14) 4,677 (2,500, 5,723) 1·32 (0·71, 1·61)
Age (years)
Post Neonatal 978 (459, 1,417) 8·05 (3·78, 11·67) 650 (303, 899) 5·21 (2·43, 7·20)
1 to 4 3,016 (1,400, 4,449) 5·97 (2·77, 8·81) 1,967 (1,047, 2,761) 3·75 (2·00, 5·27)
5 to 9 1,828 (951, 2,437) 3·16 (1·65, 4·22) 1,568 (703, 2,117) 2·53 (1·13, 3·41)
10 to 14 595 (403, 725) 1·13 (0·76, 1·37) 711 (387, 862) 1·19 (0·65, 1·45)
15 to 19 276 (197, 313) 0·54 (0·38, 0·61) 378 (224, 449) 0·64 (0·38, 0·76)
20 to 24 273 (210, 326) 0·56 (0·43, 0·67) 389 (271, 473) 0·63 (0·44, 0·77)
25 to 29 291 (229, 359) 0·67 (0·52, 0·82) 448 (315, 545) 0·75 (0·53, 0·91)
30 to 34 263 (206, 331) 0·68 (0·53, 0·86) 420 (300, 506) 0·79 (0·57, 0·96)
35 to 39 222 (178, 280) 0·65 (0·52, 0·81) 369 (264, 456) 0·75 (0·54, 0·93)
40 to 44 187 (156, 244) 0·67 (0·56, 0·87) 355 (267, 431) 0·75 (0·56, 0·91)
45 to 49 99 (79, 114) 0·43 (0·34, 0·50) 233 (169, 263) 0·53 (0·39, 0·60)
50 to 54 99 (80, 117) 0·47 (0·38, 0·55) 232 (163, 261) 0·61 (0·43, 0·68)
55 to 59 89 (76, 110) 0·48 (0·41, 0·59) 218 (158, 247) 0·67 (0·49, 0·76)
60 to 64 96 (83, 123) 0·61 (0·52, 0·77) 229 (176, 263) 0·82 (0·63, 0·94)
65 to 69 97 (83, 133) 0·79 (0·67, 1·08) 224 (175, 265) 1·19 (0·93, 1·41)
70 to 74 78 (67, 101) 0·9 (0·77, 1·16) 199 (147, 237) 1·32 (0·97, 1·57)
75 to 79 60 (49, 70) 0·95 (0·78, 1·12) 158 (108, 178) 1·48 (1·01, 1·67)
80 plus 107 (78, 128) 1·89 (1·38, 2·26) 364 (252, 443) 3·03 (2·10, 3·69)
Region
    Central Europe, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia
Central Asia 20 (16, 22) 0·29 (0·23, 0·33) 15 (13, 19) 0·18 (0·15, 0·23)
Central Europe 66 (28, 76) 0·53 (0·23, 0·62) 12 (11, 19) 0·1 (0·09, 0·16)
Eastern Europe 25 (22, 35) 0·11 (0·10, 0·16) 22 (18, 30) 0·1 (0·09, 0·14)
    High-income
Australasia 2 (2, 3) 0·11 (0·10, 0·15) 3 (2, 3) 0·1 (0·07, 0·11)
High-income Asia Pacific 22 (20, 27) 0·13 (0·12, 0·16) 18 (14, 21) 0·1 (0·08, 0·12)
High-income North America 29 (27, 40) 0·11 (0·10, 0·14) 34 (26, 40) 0·1 (0·07, 0·11)
Southern Latin America 33 (26, 37) 0·67 (0·53, 0·75) 20 (16, 34) 0·33 (0·26, 0·55)
Western Europe 77 (50, 85) 0·2 (0·13, 0·22) 42 (35, 52) 0·1 (0·08, 0·12)
    Latin America and Caribbean
Andean Latin America 55 (47, 68) 1·42 (1·22, 1·77) 44 (35, 60) 0·77 (0·62, 1·05)
Caribbean 41 (36, 68) 1·35 (1·17, 2·21) 126 (51, 163) 3·24 (1·31, 4·18)
Central Latin America 118 (107, 172) 0·7 (0·64, 1·03) 259 (153, 301) 1·05 (0·62, 1·23)
Tropical Latin America 21 (18, 41) 0·14 (0·11, 0·26) 279 (41, 343) 1·35 (0·20, 1·66)
    North Africa and Middle East
North Africa and Middle East 110 (68, 131) 0·34 (0·21, 0·41) 72 (62, 89) 0·14 (0·12, 0·18)
    South Asia
South Asia 1,712 (1,328, 2,584) 1·54 (1·19, 2·32) 2,132 (1,741, 2,825) 1·29 (1·06, 1·71)
    Southeast Asia, East Asia, and Oceania
East Asia 242 (159, 320) 0·2 (0·13, 0·27) 144 (120, 167) 0·1 (0·08, 0·12)
Oceania 71 (53, 88) 12·1 (9·14, 15·03) 78 (57, 131) 8·13 (5·94, 13·64)
Southeast Asia 5,645 (2,727, 7,741) 12·4 (5·97, 16·95) 5,376 (2,494, 6,765) 8·49 (3·94, 10·68)
    Sub-Saharan Africa
Central Sub-Saharan Africa 42 (21, 62) 0·81 (0·40, 1·18) 62 (39, 89) 0·62 (0·38, 0·88)
Eastern Sub-Saharan Africa 46 (37, 60) 0·25 (0·20, 0·32) 66 (53, 81) 0·18 (0·15, 0·23)
Southern Sub-Saharan Africa 19 (6, 23) 0·36 (0·11, 0·43) 7 (5, 11) 0·09 (0·07, 0·15)
Western Sub-Saharan Africa 260 (129, 374) 1·32 (0·65, 1·89) 299 (202, 412) 0·82 (0·55, 1·13)
Income category
High income, OECD 156 (116, 169) 0.17 (0.13, 0.18) 104 (85, 126) 0.10 (0.08, 0.12)
High income, nonOECD 30 (26, 40) 0.16 (0.14, 0.21) 31 (27, 42) 0.15 (0.13, 0.20)
Upper middle income 1,241 (941, 1,433) 0.63 (0.48, 0.73) 1,171 (784, 1,325) 0.47 (0.32, 0.54)
Lower middle income 6,520 (3,582, 8,962) 3.78 (2.08, 5.20) 7,018 (4,228, 8,521) 2.76 (1.66, 3.35)
Low income 797 (471, 1,026) 1.58 (0.93, 2.03) 754 (489, 912) 0.87 (0.56, 1.05)

UI=uncertainty interval. OECD=Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.