Table 1. Distribution of demographic characteristics of new American tegumentary leishmaniasis cases in Amazonas, 2010–2014.

Description		2010 n = 1,089 %	2011 n = 2,112 %	2012 n = 2,077 %	2013 n = 1,361 %	2014 n = 1,745 %	Total cases n = 8,384
Sex
	Male	81.6	81.3	78.6	78.5	78.5	6,675
	Female	18.4	18.7	21.4	21.5	21.5	1,709
Age group (years)
	<1	1.3	1.0	0.9	1.1	1.7	98
	1 to 14	14.3	13.0	16.7	16.2	15.5	1,268
	15 to 19	13.6	12.0	13.7	12.0	14.1	1,097
	20 to 29	31.5	28.1	25.7	24.7	24.1	2,227
	30 to 39	20.3	21.4	18.1	21.1	19.7	1,678
	40 to 49	9.3	14.6	13.0	11.8	12.7	1,019
	50 or more	9.7	11.9	11.9	13.2	12.2	997
Years of schooling
	0 to 8	58.7	40.4	43.0	41.3	35	3,151
	9 or more	12.9	10.9	11.0	18.1	14.5	1,508
	Not applicable	5.4	5.1	4.6	5.0	5.0	421
	Ignored/missing data	22.9	43.5	41.3	35.5	45.5	3,304
Skin color/ethnicity *
	Mixed (Black and White)	67.9	82.5	82.6	82.1	83.1	6765
	Not mixed/others	32.1	17.5	17.4	17.9	16.9	1619

Source: Information System of Notifiable Diseases (SINAN).

^*Classification based on the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, which considered skin color and ethnicity as synonymous.