Table 2.

Incidence of Streptococcus pneumoniae and Neisseria meningitides in the EU and EFTA countries in selected years.

Country	Streptococcus Pneumoniae					Neisseria Meningitidis
	Cases per 100,000 Population					Cases per 100,000 Population
	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2014	2015	2016	2017
Austria	3.8	4.9	5.0	6.2	6.9	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.2
Belgium	10.3	11.8	11.5	12.7	13.5	0.8	0.9	0.9	0.8
Bulgaria	0.3	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.3	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1
Croatia	0.6	0.6	0.3	0.4	0.5	0.8	1.0	0.7	0.9
Cyprus	1.6	1.1	0.6	2.3	2.0	0.5	0.5	0.7	0.5
Czechia	3.2	3.9	3.1	3.7	5.0	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.6
Denmark	12.9	14.3	12.8	13.4	13.8	0.8	0.4	0.7	0.7
Estonia	0.9	1.8	2.3	3.4	3.3	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.3
Finland	12.9	14.9	14.9	14.9	13.8	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.3
France	6.6	6.9	7.9	8.0	7.7	0.6	0.7	0.8	0.8
Germany	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.3
Greece	0.3	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.4
Hungary	1.5	1.9	2.3	2.7	3.4	0.3	0.4	0.5	0.4
Iceland	7.4	7.6	5.7	8.0	8.6	0.3	1.2	0.0	0.9
Italy	1.6	2.1	2.5	2.8	2.6	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.3
Latvia	2.5	4.4	3.3	3.8	3.9	0.3	0.5	0.2	0.4
Liechtenstein	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
Lithuania	0.2	0.9	1.9	2.7	2.3	1.8	1.9	2.4	2.4
Luxembourg	0.2	0	0	0.2	0.2	0.5	0.2	0.2	0
Malta	5.1	2.0	2.4	3.9	6.5	3.0	1.1	1.3	0.4
Netherlands	13.0	15.8	14.9	14.4	16.0	0.5	0.5	0.9	1.2
Norway	11.1	10.1	11.5	10.6	11.0	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.3
Poland	1.9	2.6	2.5	3.1	3.6	0.5	0.6	0.4	0.6
Portugal	NA	1.4	1.6	2.9	3.9	0.5	0.6	0.4	0.5
Rep. Of Ireland	7.4	7.6	8.0	8.7	10.6	1.6	1.5	1.8	1.5
Romania	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3
Slovakia	1.4	1.3	1.1	1.8	1.8	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.7
Slovenia	13.4	16.1	13.6	15.9	13.4	0.4	0.8	0.3	0.4
Spain	5.0	5.5	4.9	6.6	6.3	0.3	0.5	0.6	0.6
Sweden	12.0	13.5	13.7	13.7	13.9	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.5
United Kingdom	6.5	8.9	9.5	9.6	9.9	1.2	1.4	1.3	1.2
Median	3.5	3.9	3.1	3.8	5.0	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5
1Q	1.3	1.3	1.6	2.7	2.3	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.3
3Q	8.1	8.9	9.5	9.6	10.6	0.6	0.8	0.7	0.8

EU, European Union; EFTA, European Free Trade Association, NA not available; 1Q, first quartile; 3Q third quartile.