Mortality and cause-of-death reporting and analysis systems in seven pacific island countries

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Table 2 Tabulated mortality data available for selected Pacific Islands, 2000–2009: WHO databases, as compared with locally available data

		Mortality data by age and sex		Cause of death data
Country	Estimated Deaths (2011) ^#	*WHO (Year/Completeness)**	Locally available data ⁺ (estimated completeness ^$ )	WHO ^§ (Year/Quality)	Locally available data ⁺ (from medical certificates) ⁺
Fiji	7185	No data (1999/90-100%)	MoH reports (>95%)	2000/Low	MOH reports
Kiribati	827	2001/>75%	MoH reports (40-60%) Civil registration (40-60%)	2002/Low	Not tabulated
Nauru	88	No data	Civil Registration (>95%)	1996/not rated	MoH reports
Palau	158	No data	MoH reports (>95%)	No data	MoH reports
Solomon Islands	4039	No data	MoH reports (not estimated)	No data	Not tabulated
Tonga	683	No data	MoH^ reports (>80%)	1998/Low	MoH reports
Vanuatu	1311	No data	MoH reports (not estimated)	No data	MoH reports (hospital deaths only)

^# Estimated deaths extracted from Secretariat of the Pacific Islands Population data [33].
* Data extracted from World Health Organisation Statistical Information System [34], [35–40]: data last updated March 2011.
+ Most complete source listed only. MoH = Ministry of Health. Most complete available source or reconciled data: Fiji (MoH), Kiribati (reconciled MoH and civil registry data), Solomon Islands (MoH), Vanuatu (MoH), Nauru (MoH/Civil registry data), Palau (MoH), Tonga (MoH).
^$ Estimates of completeness source: Fiji [41], Kiribati (capture-recapture analysis, unpublished), Solomon Islands (system assessment), Vanuatu (system assessment), Nauru [42], Palau (Brass analysis), Tonga [43].
^§ WHO assessment, 2003 [3].
^ MoH data from 2009 onward is routinely reconciled against civil registry data.

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