Figure 1. Number of confirmed cases of poliomyelitis, by Region of the World Health Organization,a and timing of the resolutions for polio eradication, 1985b – 2016.
a AFR = African Region; AMR = American Region; EMR = Eastern-Mediterranean Region; EUR = European Region; SEAR = South-East Asian Region; WPR = Western Pacific Region.
b Numbers of polio cases in SEAR are since 1993; from 1980 – 1994, numbers ranged from 6 470 – 39 936 annually.
Source: World Health Organization. Available from: http://www.who.int/immunization/monitoring_surveillance/data/en Accessed 14 September 2017.