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. 2020 Dec 10;2:40–50. doi: 10.1016/j.jdin.2020.10.006

Table II.

Notable top 10th percentile world rankings of Asian countries by annual percent change from 1990 to 2017 measured in DALYs per 100,000

Disease Asian country World ranking
Skin and subcutaneous disease Cyprus 6
Squamous cell carcinoma Armenia 4
Georgia 6
Iran 10
Basal cell carcinoma Taiwan 7
Sri Lanka 8
Turkey 9
China 10
Vietnam 15
Melanoma Brunei 4
South Korea 6
Lip and oral cancer Taiwan 1
China 5
Georgia 7
Azerbaijan 9
Pakistan 18
Contact dermatitis Maldives 1
Iran 2
Saudi Arabia 3
Oman 4
Bangladesh 6
Cambodia 7
United Arab Emirates 8
Syria 9
Nepal 12
China 14
Turkey 15
Brunei 16
India 18
Qatar 20
Seborrheic dermatitis Taiwan 1
South Korea 2
Japan 4
Maldives 5
Brunei 8
Singapore 9
China 12
Laos 15
Psoriasis Saudi Arabia 1
Maldives 2
Oman 3
Taiwan 4
Thailand 5
China 6
Turkey 7
Myanmar 8
Sri Lanka 9
Yemen 11
Atopic dermatitis Afghanistan 1
Pakistan 20
Acne Yemen 2
Saudi Arabia 3
Lebanon 6
Nepal 7
Timor-Leste 8
Laos 9
Bangladesh 10
Omen 11
Bhutan 12
Turkey 13
Iraq 14
India 15
Jordan 16
Qatar 17
Cambodia 18
Malaysia 19
Pakistan 20
Alopecia areata Maldives 1
Saudi Arabia 2
Oman 3
Iran 4
United Arab Emirates 6
Bhutan 7
Cambodia 9
Lebanon 11
Qatar 12
Jordan 13
Yemen 14
Palestine 15
Turkmenistan 16
Pakistan 18
Azerbaijan 19
Pruritus South Korea 1
China 2
Thailand 4
Taiwan 5
Maldives 7
Iran 8
Vietnam 9
Singapore 10
Turkey 12
Bangladesh 13
Saudi Arabia 15
Bhutan 16
Bahrain 17
Urticaria Afghanistan 1
Cyprus 8
Pakistan 18
Decubitus ulcer Thailand 2
Malaysia 3
Cambodia 10
South Korea 12
Saudi Arabia 19
Asthma Jordan 9
Lebanon 14
Cutaneous leishmaniasis Syria 2
Tajikistan 4
Iraq 5
Sri Lanka 7
Kuwait 9
Israel 11
Palestine 12
Lebanon 13
China 16
Georgia 20
Cellulitis Israel 6
Malaysia 11
Taiwan 12
Georgia 15
Pyoderma Georgia 9
Israel 13
Armenia 14
Scabies Afghanistan 3
North Korea 9
Pakistan 15
Viral skin disease Afghanistan 1
Pakistan 18
Fungal skin disease Japan 1
China 16
Jordan 20
Other skin and subcutaneous disease South Korea 1
China 2
Thailand 4
Japan 7
Vietnam 9
Sri Lanka 10
India 18
Maldives 19

DALY, Disability-adjusted life years.

Encompasses dermatoses, such as bullous diseases, connective tissue diseases, and cutaneous drug reactions.