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. 2021 Aug 30;105(4):896–902. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.20-1318

Table 1.

Countries’ Demographic Characteristics for 2018

Country Health events Population Mortality rate, under 5 (per 1,000 live births) Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) Death rate, crude (per 1,000 people)
Nigeria 12 195,874,740 120 38 12
Democratic Republic of Congo 7 84,068,091 88 41 9
China 6 1,392,730,000 9 11 7
United States 6 326,687,501 7 12 9
France 5 66,977,107 4 11 9
Cuba 1 11,338,138 4 10 9
Dominica 1 71,625 36 12 8
Guyana 1 779,004 30 20 7
United Kingdom 1 66,460,344 4 11 9
Malaysia 1 31,528,585 8 17 5

The top five and the least five countries reporting health events to WHO Disease Outbreak News.