Table 4.

Characteristics of six ‘early-banned’ countries separately analysed by year of ban and GBD-estimated mortality rate (MR) of mesothelioma during 1990–1994, contrasted with the MR of 48 ‘banned and identified’ countries

Country	Year of ban	GBD-estimated mesothelioma MR during 1990–1994 (deaths per million per year)
			‘Early-banned’ country
Austria	1990	5.66
Denmark	1980	9.41
Iceland	1983	7.05
Norway	1984	15.55
Sweden	1986	8.37
Switzerland	1989	10.23
‘Banned and identified’ countries (n=48)	1991–2019	Average: 5.32, median 3.14
		(First quartile 1.82, third quartile 8.07)

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