Table 2.

Coverage of neonatal screening carried out by the IHSS considering births in the IHSS and the total number of births in the country in 2018 and 2019

Period	Number of births by IHSS*	Number of neonatal screening by IHSS**	Coverage of newborn screening by IHSS	Total Honduras population***	National birth rate**** (live births/1000 inhabitants)	Estimated number of births in the country	National coverage of newborn screening
2018	14,326	8716	60.8%	9,023,838	21.6	194,915	4.4%
2019	13,919	11,195	80.4%	9,158,345	21.3	195,073	5.7%

Data source: *Statistics Department of IHSS 2019; **Central Laboratory of Specialties at the IHSS 2019; ***National Institute of Statistics 2020; ****Knoema 2020