Changes in drowning mortality rates and quality of reporting from 2004–2005 to 2014–2015: a comparative study of 61 countries

Lin, Ching-Yi; Wang, Liang-Yi; Lu, Tsung-Hsueh

doi:10.1186/s12889-019-7749-2

Table 1 Numbers of all and unspecified (Uspe) drowning deaths, age-standardized mortality rate (deaths per 100,000 people), percentage of unspecified codes (%), and from 2004 to 2005 to 2014–2015 in 61 countries

From: Changes in drowning mortality rates and quality of reporting from 2004–2005 to 2014–2015: a comparative study of 61 countries

	2004–2005				2014–15				PC (%)
Countries	All	Uspe	Rate	%	All	Unspe	Rate	%	Rate	Unspe
Argentina	1130	720	14.3	64	786	458	9.1	58	−36	−9
Australia	390	76	9.7	19	376	56	7.7	15	−21	− 24
Austria	164	24	8.5	15	69	13	2.8	19	− 67	+ 29
Belgium	151	54	6.4	36	152	119	5.5	78	−13	+ 119
Brazil	12,602	5529	33.0	44	10,530	3912	25.1	37	−24	−15
Bulgaria^a	365	215	22.8	59	271	152	17.5	56	−23	−5
Canada^b	582	227	9.0	39	601	131	8.0	22	−11	− 44
Chile	1001	874	31.0	87	665	561	18.0	84	−42	−3
Colombia	2134	834	23.9	39	1547	176	16.1	11	−33	−71
Costa Rica	275	179	32.2	65	212	209	22.1	99	−31	+ 51
Croatia	152	64	14.9	42	175	4	15.4	2	+ 3	−95
Cuba	528	6	23.7	1	433	5	18.6	1	−22	+ 2
Czech	368	200	15.8	54	307	94	11.8	31	− 25	−44
Denmark	85	9	6.6	11	59	6	3.7	10	−44	−4
Ecuador	841	469	31.2	56	700	277	21.9	40	−30	−29
Egypt	2762	934	17.5	34	3555	1217	18.5	34	+ 6	+ 1
El Salvador^a	517	517	43.6	100	372	294	29.6	79	−32	−21
Estonia	144	44	47.8	31	100	8	32.6	8	−32	−74
Finland	287	5	22.2	2	226	0	14.6	0	−34	−100
France	2157	1778	15.0	82	1773	1450	10.5	82	−30	−1
Georgia	90	43	8.9	48	142	80	16.9	56	+ 90	+ 18
Germany	801	311	4.2	39	833	280	4.1	34	−2	−13
Guatemala	197	194	7.8	98	647	647	20.3	100	+ 161	+ 2
Guyana^b	43	42	28.5	98	196	196	133.4	100	+ 368	+ 2
Hong Kong	80	14	4.9	18	80	4	3.9	5	−19	−71
Hungary	372	60	16.5	16	278	12	12.7	4	−23	−73
Israel	93	91	6.7	98	83	80	4.7	96	−29	−1
Italy	759	527	5.6	69	696	544	4.4	78	−21	+ 13
Japan	11,806	1196	26.0	10	14,992	1697	24.5	11	−6	+ 12
Kyrgyzstan	539	295	53.9	55	422	226	35.7	54	−34	−2
Latvia	435	51	93.0	12	301	6	64.3	2	−31	− 83
Lithuania	697	17	95.6	2	375	32	53.2	9	−44	+ 250
Malaysia	740	290	13.8	39	525	480	8.5	91	−38	+ 133
Mauritius	70	49	28.8	70	86	86	33.1	100	+ 15	+ 43
Mexico	4452	2313	20.4	52	4105	1506	16.1	37	−21	−29
Morocco^a	167	99	2.8	59	530	392	7.6	74	+ 177	+ 25
Netherlands	189	116	5.4	61	160	71	3.9	44	−28	−28
New Zealand^b	134	5	16.8	4	106	10	11.8	9	−30	+ 153
Nicaragua	369	144	35.1	39	281	214	23.6	76	−33	+ 95
Norway	164	124	15.8	76	121	100	9.1	83	−42	+ 9
Panama	247	11	36.9	4	217	28	27.4	13	−26	+ 190
Paraguay^a	205	149	18.0	73	338	79	25.5	23	+ 41	−68
Peru	878	750	16.4	85	662	605	10.7	91	−35	+ 7
Poland	1998	711	23.9	36	1501	46	17.0	3	−29	−91
Portugal^a	339	312	14.5	92	159	101	6.3	64	− 56	−31
Korea	1820	677	18.9	37	1153	592	9.2	51	−51	+ 38
Moldova	568	352	77.8	62	364	204	47.6	56	−39	−10
Romania	2207	1143	47.9	52	1362	716	30.6	53	−36	+ 2
Serbia	187	110	11.7	59	156	36	9.3	23	−20	−61
Slovakia^a	277	28	24.4	10	273	26	21.8	10	−10	−6
South Africa	221	206	2.0	93	2990	2983	26.5	100	+ 1195	+ 7
Spain	1066	715	10.7	67	864	408	7.2	47	−33	−30
Sweden	197	95	8.3	48	204	106	7.7	52	−7	+ 8
Switzerland	83	59	5.3	71	106	81	5.4	76	+ 3	+ 7
Taiwan	1136	1035	24.2	91	697	521	12.6	75	− 48	−18
Thailand	8660	8647	68.8	100	6818	6757	49.4	99	−28	−1
U.K.	420	75	3.3	18	535	166	3.8	31	+ 17	+ 74
Uruguay	146	135	21.5	92	153	150	20.9	98	−3	+ 6
U.S.A.	6890	1580	11.8	23	7008	983	10.7	14	−10	− 39
Uzbekistan^a	2077	1103	36.8	53	1745	750	28.3	43	−23	−19
Venezuela^b	1193	366	22.4	31	868	306	14.1	35	− 37	+ 15

^aLatest available data were for 2013–2014, and the corresponding 10-year-old data were for 2003–2004
^bLatest available data were for 2012–2013, and the corresponding 10-year-old data were for 2002–2003

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