Table 1. Estimates of population living at risk for leishmaniasis during 2001, 2009, and 2018, Sri Lanka*.
| Cases/100,000 population | 2001 |
2009 |
2018 |
|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. districts | Population | No. districts | Population | No. districts | Population | |||
| 0 | 12 | 7,728,455 | 7 | 3,899,690 | 2 | 1,306,933 | ||
| <1 | 11 | 10,157,597 | 11 | 11,453,975 | 6 | 6,988,158 | ||
| 1–10 | 2 | 911,205 | 4 | 2,290,870 | 9 | 6,622,843 | ||
| 11–50 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2,194,176 | 4 | 3,862,871 | ||
| 51–100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2,211,753 | ||
| >100 |
0 |
0 |
|
0 |
0 |
|
1 |
639,340 |
| Total | 25 | 18,797,257 | 25 | 19,838,711 | 25 | 21,631,898 | ||
*Determined by using cutaneous leishmaniasis incidence rates per district and census data from the government of Sri Lanka (http://www.statistics.gov.lk) from 2001 to project potential incidence rates for 2009 and from 2012 to project incidence rates for 2018.