Country groupings
Subregional country groupings for the global assessment of disease burden
Country groupings for global assessment according to WHO subregions (a)
| Subregionb | . | WHO Member States |
| AFR | D | Algeria, Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, Comoros Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Niger, Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Togo |
| AFR | E | Botswana, Burundi, Central African Republic, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania Zambia, Zimbabwe |
| AMR | A | Canada, Cuba, United States of America |
| AMR | B | Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Saint Kitts and Newis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela |
| AMR | D | Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Nicaragua, Peru |
| EMR | B | Bahrain, Cyprus, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates |
| EMR | D | Afghanistan, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Morocco, Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen |
| EUR | A | Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, San Marino, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom |
| EUR | B | Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovia, Bulgaria, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Tajikistan, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Yugoslavia |
| EUR | C | Belarus, Estonia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Republic of Moldova, Russian Federation, Ukraine |
| SEAR | B | Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand |
| SEAR | D | Bangladesh, Bhutan, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, India, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Timor Leste |
| WPR | A | Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore |
| WPR | B | Cambodia, China, Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Federated States of), Mongolia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Viet Nam |
a Source WHO (2001)
b Subregions: AFR=Africa; AMR=Americas; EMR=Eastern Mediterranean; EUR=Europe; SEAR=South-East Asia; WPR=Western Pacific; A: very low child, very low adult mortality; B Low child, low adult mortality; C: Low child, high adult mortality; D: High child, high adult mortality; E: High child, very high adult mortality