Table 4. Results of 4-class LGMM for clustering Asian and North African countries based on TB mortality rate .

Class	No. of countries	Parameter	Est.	95%CI	p	Time score (1990,1995,2000,2005,2010,2015,2017)
I	35	Intercept	12.42	(7.78, 17.07)	<0.001	(0.0, 1.0, 2.6, 3.9, 4.8, 5.2, 5.3)
		Slope	-1.82	(-2.76, -0.88)	<0.001
II	8	Intercept	20.42	(15.91, 24.93)	<0.001	(0.0, 1.0, -0.5, 1.7, 5.8, 7.7, 8.0)
		Slope	-1.43	(-2.02, -0.84)	<0.001
III	7	Intercept	104.25	(84.77, 123.73)	<0.001	(0.0, 1.0, 2.2, 4.2, 5.9, 7.2, 7.6)
		Slope	-8.99	(-12.48, -5.50)	<0.001
IV	5	Intercept	64.70	(53.98, 75.42)	<0.001	(0.0, 1.0, 2.0, 2.9, 3.9, 4.5, 4.7)
		Slope	-9.13	(-12.01, -6.25)	<0.001

Class I: Algeria, Armenia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, China, Egypt, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritius, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Taiwan, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and Yemen.

Class II: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, North Korea, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

Class III: Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Pakistan and Philippines.

Class IV: Afghanistan, Morocco, Nepal, Timor Lest and Vietnam.