Will the European Union reach the United Nations Millennium declaration target of a 50% reduction of tuberculosis mortality between 1990 and 2015?

Table 1 Tuberculosis (TB) death rate per 100,000 population in first year with available data in European Union and European Economic Areas Member States

Member State	First year causes of death data available	Nr TB deaths in first year with causes of death data available	Population number in first year with causes of death data available	TB death rate per 100,000 population in first year with causes of death data available
Austria	1994	113	7,928,746	1.43
Belgium	1994	138	10,100,631	1.37
Bulgaria	1995	332	8,427,418	3.94
Croatia	1999	214	4,527,459	4.73
Cyprus	2004	3	722,893	0.41
Czech Republic	1994	132	10,334,013	1.28
Denmark	1994	44	5,196,642	0.85
Estonia	1994	143	1,476,952	9.68
Finland	1994	114	5,077,912	2.25
France	2001	1061	60,979,315	1.74
Germany	1994	1014	81,338,093	1.25
Greece	1994	107	10,489,871	1.02
Hungary	1994	653	10,350,010	6.31
Iceland^a	1994	4	265,064	1.51
Ireland	1994	52	3,583,154	1.45
Italy	1994	733	56,842,392	1.29
Latvia	1996	289	2,469,531	11.70
Liechtenstein^a	-	-	30,310	-
Lithuania	1994	413	3,671,296	11.25
Luxembourg	1994	5	400,200	1.25
Malta	1994	1	373,161	0.27
Netherlands	1994	140	15,341,553	0.91
Norway^a	1994	71	4,324,815	1.64
Poland	1994	1416	38,504,707	3.68
Portugal	1994	337	9,974,391	3.38
Romania	1999	2152	22,488,595	9.57
Slovakia	1996	77	5,367,790	1.43
Slovenia	1994	29	1,989,408	1.46
Spain	1994	754	39,458,489	1.91
Sweden	1994	103	8,745,109	1.18
United Kingdom	1994	571	57,788,017	0.99
European Union (28 countries)	1999	8780	486,577,953	1.80

^aEuropean Economic Area Member States and not included in the European Union total

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