Table 3.
The annual incidence rate of laboratory-confirmed bacterial meningitis per 100 000 populations according to governorate
| Governorate | Population |
N. meningitidis |
S. pneumoniae |
Laboratory-confirmed bacterial meningitis |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of cases | Annual IRa | Number of cases | Annual IR | Total | Annual IR | ||
| Karkh | 3 550 260 | 63 | 0.89 | 46 | 0.65 | 109 | 1.54 |
| Al-Rusafa | 4 830 885 | 93 | 0.96 | 56 | 0.58 | 149 | 1.54 |
| Karbala | 1 283 484 | 39 | 1.52 | 40 | 1.56 | 79 | 3.08 |
| Kirkuk | 1 682 809 | 19 | 0.56 | 10 | 0.30 | 29 | 0.86 |
| Maysan | 1 171 802 | 1 | 0.04 | 2 | 0.09 | 3 | 0.13 |
| Total | 12 519 240 | 215 | 0.86 | 154 | 0.62 | 369 | 1.47 |
a
Annual incidence rate (IR) is per 100 000 population.