Table 3.

Overall drowning mortality estimates

Data source	Time period	Drowning related ICD-10 codes (range)	Total all-cause deaths	Total drowning deaths	Drowning fraction		Total population (annual average)	Annual average drowning mortality rate/ 100 000 persons
					%	95% CI		Rate	95% CI
Population-based data (combined)*	–	V90–Y21	29 794	240	0.72	0.55 to 0.88	1 012 926	5.1	3.8 to 6.3
	–	W65–W74	29 651	200	0.60	0.46 to 0.73	1 012 926	4.3	3.3 to 5.4
Hospital-based data (combined)†	–	–	6229	56	0.94	0.09 to 1.78	–	–	–
WHO GHE global database	2015	W65–W74	415 122	3454	0.83	–	53 470 000	6.5	–
GBD global database	2016	W65–W74	388 912	2486	0.64	0.55 to 0.76	54 043 478	4.6	3.7 to 5.6
Data source	Time period	Drowing related ICD-10 codes (range)	Total all-cause deaths	Total drowning deaths	Drowning fraction		Total population (annual average)	Annual average number ofall-cause deaths
					%	95% CI
SUMATRA data source	2006–2016	–	797	–	–		–	72
EM–DAT global database	2000–2016	–	911	–	–		–	54

Bold values highlight % or rates.

*Drowning fraction: Ifakara HDSS, Rufiji HDSS, SAVVY survey, Kamugisha et al, 2007¹¹, Kaatano et al, 2009¹²; Annual average drowning mortality rate: Ifakara HDSS, Rufiji HDSS, SAVVY survey.

†Murray et al, 2011¹³, Peck et a l, 2013, Boniface et al, 2013¹⁵.

EM-DAT, Emergency Events Database; GBD, Global Burden of Disease; HDSS, Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems; ICD-10, International Classification of Diseases 10th revision; SAVVY, Sample Vital registration with Verbal autopsy; SUMATRA, Ministry of Transport Surface and Marine Regulatory Authority; WHO GHE, WHO Global Health Estimates.