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. 2022 Sep 12;7(9):e009773. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2022-009773

Table 5.

Economic impacts of OAO, baseline projections for 2020, 2030 and 2060 (in 2019 USD), by WHO region

Direct medical costs (billions) Direct non-medical costs (billions) Total direct costs (billions) Absenteeism costs (billions) Presenteeism costs (billions) Premature mortality costs (billions) Total indirect costs (billions) Total costs (billions) Total costs per capita Total costs as a per cent of GDP
AFR
 2020 4.39 0.11 4.50 3.00 4.96 10.27 18.23 22.73 20.66 1.21
 2030 7.94 0.20 8.13 4.61 7.71 19.36 31.69 39.82 28.41 1.44
 2060 35.50 0.75 36.25 12.46 21.47 125.39 159.33 195.58 79.04 2.11
EMR
 2020 12.72 0.07 12.79 3.97 13.25 40.01 57.23 70.02 112.43 2.32
 2030 18.30 0.10 18.40 5.29 17.73 80.64 103.66 122.06 168.31 2.78
 2060 42.11 0.23 42.34 10.10 34.36 634.41 678.87 721.21 738.67 5.41
EUR
 2020 156.66 0.21 156.87 65.61 62.80 230.70 359.11 515.98 553.19 2.34
 2030 195.30 0.23 195.53 79.48 77.42 338.82 495.73 691.26 733.38 2.48
 2060 347.61 0.28 347.89 152.25 158.10 1076.99 1387.33 1735.22 1877.52 3.07
AMR
 2020 357.62 0.19 357.81 26.82 118.49 367.06 512.38 870.19 891.26 3.21
 2030 473.27 0.23 473.51 32.64 139.55 579.99 752.18 1225.69 1172.77 3.49
 2060 961.62 0.34 961.96 51.61 209.37 2187.75 2448.72 3410.68 2956.66 4.49
SEA
 2020 5.16 0.15 5.31 2.01 7.32 50.09 59.42 64.73 32.44 1.36
 2030 11.26 0.24 11.50 3.89 14.14 132.78 150.81 162.30 74.83 1.89
 2060 68.74 0.59 69.33 18.50 66.78 1377.60 1462.88 1532.21 648.65 3.09
WPR
 2020 77.04 0.30 77.34 25.69 74.01 234.88 334.59 411.92 214.35 1.70
 2030 138.57 0.42 138.99 42.98 126.52 675.66 845.16 984.15 498.89 2.49
 2060 613.35 0.66 614.00 147.89 442.35 10 069.95 10 660.19 11 274.19 6054.71 3.06

AFR, Africa; AMR, the Americas; EMR, Eastern Mediterranean; EUR, Europe; GDP, gross domestic product; SEA, South-East Asian; WPR, Western Pacific.