Table 2.
Country-specific estimated pneumonia disease burden in children less than 5 years of age in the Western Pacific Region.*
| Country | Population (<5 yrs of age) | Pneumonia Disease Burden |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total episodes N |
Episodes per child-year | Severe episodes n (%) |
Deaths n (%) |
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| Australia Brunei Japan New Zealand Singapore China Malaysia South Korea Papua N.G Pacific islandsa Mongolia Philippines Viet Nam Cambodia Laos All combined |
1,457,527 37,385 5,430,793 311,974 230,550 81,595,595 2,828,151 2,371,820 962,437 273,315 296,799 11,254,421 7,185,862 1,491,690 682,861 116,411,180 |
32,776 899 135,770 7,036 5,764 6,488,544 285,716 249,811 166,267 53,309 60,292 2,428,448 1,728,193 373,583 212,441 12,228,849 |
0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.08 0.10 0.10 0.17 0.19 0.20 0.22 0.24 0.25 0.31 0.11 |
8,374 (25.5) 239 (26.6) 36,251(26.7) 1,800 (25.6) 1,539 (26.7) 746,183 (11.5) 32,652 (11.4) 28,728 (11.5) 19,051 (11.4) 5,132 (0.09) 6,889 (11.4) 279,254 (11.5) 197,920 (11.4) 42,699 (11.4) 24,312 (11.4) 1,431,023 (11.7) |
38 (0.1) 3 (0.3) 231(0.2) 31(0.4) 9 (0.2) 43,089 (0.7) 199 (0.1) 56 (0.02) 2,038 (1.2) 204 (0.4) 332 (0.6) 8,974 (0.4) 3,553 (0.2) 2,101(0.6) 1,076 (0.5) 61,934 (0.5) |
yrs – years.
a
Pacific islands reflect combined data for the following pacific island nations; Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Island, Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Island, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
*
Adapted from [96]; reflects the estimated number of total episodes and severe episodes in the year 2010, but the estimated number of deaths in the year 2011. Episodes per child-year was calculated from estimated total episodes and population numbers for children <5 yrs; arranged in ascending order of pneumonia episodes per child-year.