Table 1. Population Fractions for Liver Cirrhosis Risk Factors by Region in 2010.

Region name	Alcohol	Hepatitis B	Hepatitis C	Other*
Asia Pacific, high income	0.24	0.31	0.25	0.20
Asia, Central	0.16	0.36	0.18	0.29
Asia, East	0.18	0.39	0.18	0.26
Asia, South and Southeast	0.40	0.58	0.44	0.59
Australia	0.31	0.30	0.18	0.21
Caribbean	0.25	0.14	0.25	0.36
Europe, Central	0.27	0.15	0.22	0.36
Europe, Eastern	0.30	0.13	0.23	0.34
Europe, Western	0.33	0.11	0.30	0.27
Latin America, Andean	0.23	0.21	0.21	0.36
Latin America, Central	0.29	0.08	0.26	0.37
Latin America, Southern	0.31	0.12	0.28	0.29
Latin America, Tropical	0.31	0.06	0.27	0.37
North America, high income	0.33	0.06	0.29	0.32
North Africa, Middle East	0.14	0.27	0.24	0.36
Sub-Saharan Africa, Central	0.15	0.37	0.20	0.27
Sub-Saharan Africa, East	0.16	0.34	0.20	0.30
Sub-Saharan Africa, Southern	0.19	0.37	0.18	0.27
Sub-Saharan Africa, West	0.15	0.38	0.18	0.28
Oceania	0.13	0.44	0.17	0.26

*Not attributable to chronic alcohol intake, and tested negative to anti-VHC antibodies and HbsAg. Adapted from Mokdad et al, BMC Medicine 2014;12:145.