Table 2. Countries by level of children’s palliative care development.
| Category | Countries
(n=198) (%) |
Children
population (millions of children aged under 20) (% of global) |
Countries |
|---|---|---|---|
| (1) No known palliative care
activity for children |
21
(10.6%) |
92M
(3.6%) |
Afghanistan, Benin, Cyprus, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia,
Grenada, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Mozambique, Oman, Palestine, Samoa, Saudi, Arabia, Serbia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Trinidad & Tobago, Tunisia, Venezuela |
| (2) Capacity building palliative
care activity for children |
16
(8.1%) |
610M
(24.1%) |
Cameroon, Croatia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Iceland, India, Iraq, Kyrgyzstan,
Lesotho, Lithuania, Niger, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Togo |
| (3a) Isolated children’s
palliative care provision |
50
(25.3%) |
763M
(30.1%) |
Albania, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bosnia & Herzegovina,
Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Georgia, Ghana, Greece, Honduras, Indonesia, Iran, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Macedonia, Madagascar, Mauritania, Moldova, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Romania, Rwanda, Senegal, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Zambia, Zimbabwe |
| (3b) Generalisedchildren’s
palliative care provision |
5
(2.5%) |
16M
(0.6%) |
Finland, Latvia, Mongolia, Papua New Guinea, Ukraine |
| (4a)children’s palliative care
services at preliminary stage of integration into mainstream health care services |
14
(7.1%) |
190M
(7.5%) |
Barbados, Côte d’Ivoire, Germany, Israel, Japan, Malawi, Malta,
Netherlands, New Zealand, Russia, Singapore, Sweden, Taiwan(China), USA |
| (4b)children’s palliative care
services at advanced stage of integration into mainstream health care services |
7
(3.5%) |
42M
(1.7%) |
Australia, Belgium, Canada, Costa Rica, Ireland, Poland, United
Kingdom |
| Conflicting data from survey
returns (unresolved) (See Supplementary Table 1, Extended data 13) |
29
(14.6%) |
646M
(25.5%) |
Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Bolivia, Burundi, Chile, China, Colombia,
Congo (DR), Denmark, Egypt, El Salvador, France, Guatemala, Guinea, Haiti, Hungary, Italy, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Swaziland, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam |
| No data from survey returns | 56
(28.3%) |
173M
(6.8%) |
Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, Bahrain,
Belize, Bhutan, Brunei, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo (Republic), Cuba, Djibouti, Dominica, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Kiribati, Kosovo, Laos, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Monaco, Montenegro, Namibia, Nauru, North Korea, Palau, Qatar, Saint Lucia, San Marino, Sao Tome e Principe, Seychelles, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Somaliland, St Kitts & Nevis, St Vincent & the Grenadines, Suriname, Syria, Tanzania, Timor l’Este, Tonga, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Vatican City, Yemen |
Note: Population for number of people aged 19 and under (2017) by country from UN Population Database. Available at https://population.un.org/wpp/Download/Archive/Standard/