Table 2.
Numbers of 1000s of neonatal deaths in 2012 attributable to term and preterm infants born small for gestational age (SGA) in low and middle income countries in regions covered by UN Millennium Development Goals
| No of live births (1000s)* | No (UR*) of neonatal deaths (1000s) | Population attributable fraction† (UR*) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total (1000s) | Term SGA | Preterm SGA | All SGA | ||||
| Not low birth weight | Low birth weight | ||||||
| Caucasus/Central Asia | 1774.3 | 26.5 | — | 1.5 (0.9 to 2.5) | 2.3 (1.2 to 4.3) | 3.8 (2.6 to 5.8) | 14.3 (9.9 to 22.0) |
| Eastern Asia | 19 097.2 | 158.9 | — | 4.2 (1.9 to 8.3) | 11.9 (6.3 to 21.5) | 16.1 (10.3 to 25.9) | 10.1 (6.5 to 16.3) |
| Latin America/Caribbean | 10 833.3 | 105.9 | — | 8.6 (6.5 to 17.5) | 18.7 (13.1 to 29.6) | 27.3 (24.8 to 40.4) | 25.8 (23.4 to 38.1) |
| Northern Africa | 3989.8 | 50.6 | 1.6 (0.8 to 2.9) | 2.7 (1.4 to 5.0) | 0.9 (0.4 to 1.8) | 5.2 (3.1 to 8.8) | 10.3 (6.1 to 17.3) |
| Oceania | 266.4 | 5.7 | — | 0.5 (0.3 to 0.8) | 0.4 (0.2 to 0.9) | 0.9 (0.7 to 1.4) | 15.8 (11.4 to 24.0) |
| South East Asia | 9691.1 | 143.9 | — | 14.5 (9.2 to 21.9) | 18.5 (9.5 to 33.4) | 33.0 (24.4 to 47.3) | 22.9 (17.0 to 32.9) |
| South Asia | 36 625.8 | 1127.3 | — | 175.8 (123.0 to 248.1) | 113.9 (63.2 to 204.4) | 289.7 (227.6 to 383.1) | 25.7 (20.2 to 34.0) |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 33 727.5 | 1090.2 | 72.2 (41.7 to 118.3) | 123.2 (68.7 to 198.5) | 23.9 (11.4 to 47.3) | 219.3 (143.3 to 325.4) | 20.1 (13.1 to 29.8) |
| Western Asia | 4844.9 | 63.4 | — | 5.6 (3.6 to 8.4) | 5.4 (2.8 to 10.0) | 11.0 (8.2 to 15.5) | 17.4 (13.0 to 24.5) |
| Total | 120 850.2 | 2772.4 | 73.8 (42.5 to 120.7) | 336.8 (250.7 to 453.8) | 195.9 (123.0 to 325.0) | 606.5 (494.8 to 772.9) | 21.9 (17.8 to 27.9) |
*Uncertainty range (UR) derived with bootstrap approach (see appendix 4).
†%of neonatal deaths attributable to SGA.