Table 2.

Number of Health Matters and progress reports in each Director-General's terms of office between 1973 and 2012.

Names of Director-General	Term of office	Years of WHAa	No. of WHA	Total no. of Health Matters	Total no. of progress reports	Average no. of Health Matters per WHA	Average no. of progress reports per WHA
Mahler	1973–1988	1974–1988	15	106	22	7.1	1.5
1st term			5	61	5	12.2	1
2nd term			5	25	9	5	1.8
3rd term			5	20	8	4	1.6
Nakajima	1988–1998	1989–1998	10	34	73	3.4	7.3
1st term			5	16	21	3.2	4.2
2nd term			5	18	52	3.6	10.4
Brundtlant	1998–2003	1999–2003	5	76	0	15.2	0
Lee	2003–2006	2004–2006	3	58	21	19.3	7
Chan	2006–	2007–2012	6	104	66	17.3	11
Total			39	378	182	9.7	4.7

^aThe WHA of the year of appointment of each Director-General was excluded.