Leprosy statistics 2008 - Part I.

Leprosy Mailing List – October 21st, 2009

Ref.: Leprosy statistics 2008 - Part I

From: Noto S., Genoa , Italy

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Dear All,

In this and in the coming two mails are enclosed leprosy statistics at global, selected World Health Organization (WHO) regions and countries updated to the year 2008. The main source of these data is the Weekly Epidemiological Record (WER) and details of the relevant issues are reported in Table 1. The indicator used is new case detection (NCD).

Countries reporting to WHO varies from one year to another, this makes comparisons between years and rates unreliable. However in the last years, in many cases, stabilization of a previously declining trend is evident. All comments will be welcome.

Best regards,

S. Noto

Leprosy statistics 2008

Part I

Table 1.

Leprosy NCD available data at global, selected WHO regions and countries (Excel).

Figure 1.

Geographical distribution of leprosy NCD by WHO Region in 2008

Part II

Figure 2.

Global, NCD of leprosy from 1985 to 2008

Figure 3.

South-East Asia , NCD of leprosy from 1991 to 2008

Figure 4.

India , NCD of leprosy from 1885 to 2008

Figure 5.

Americas , NCD of leprosy from 1991 to 2008

Figure 6.

Brazil , NCD of leprosy from 1980 to 2008

Figure 7.

Africa , NCD of leprosy from 1991 to 2008

Figure 8.

Western Pacific and Eastern Mediterranean , NCD of leprosy from 2002 to 2008

Part III.

Table 2.

Major 17 leprosy endemic countries in 2008.

Figure 9.1

India , Brazil , Indonesia NCD from 2002 to 2008

Figure 9.2

Major 17 leprosy endemic countries.

Countries (8/17) with decreasing NCD of leprosy from 2007 to 2008

Figure 9.3

Major 17 leprosy endemic countries.

Countries (6/17) with increasing NCD of leprosy from 2007 to 2008