Table 2.

Number of annual reported malaria cases per country in Mesoamerica

Country	Year
	1960	1965	1970	1975	1980	1985	1990	1995	2000	2005	2010	2015
El Salvador	10,066	34,070	45,436	83,100	95,835	44,473	9,269	3,364	753	67	24	9
Guatemala	3,387	14,472	11,044	4,979	62,657	54,958	41,711	24,178	53,311	39,571	7,198	5,540
Honduras	5,517	6,952	34,537	30,289	43,010	33,828	53,099	74,346	35,125	16,007	9,745	3,575
Mexico	3,569	10,113	61,158	27,925	25,734	133,698	44,513	7,423	7,390	2,967	1,233	551
Nicaragua	7,528	10,275	27,260	24,692	25,465	15,130	35,785	69,444	23,878	6,642	692	2,307
Costa Rica	2,000	2,563	350	290	376	734	1,151	4,515	1,879	3,541	114	8
Panama	4,464	1,929	4,584	666	304	126	381	730	1,036	3,667	418	562
Belize	196	206	33	90	1,529	2,800	3,033	9,413	1,486	1,549	150	13
Total cases	36,727	80,580	184,402	172,031	254,910	285,747	188,942	193,413	124,858	74,011	19,574	12,565
Contribution (%): El Salvador	27.41	42.28	24.64	48.31	37.60	15.56	4.91	1.74	0.60	0.09	0.12	0.07

The bolded numbers in each column identify the country with the highest number of cases in a given year.²