Table 2 Countries classified according to drowning mortality rate in 2004–2005 and the PC from 2004 to 2005 to 2014–2015

Drowning mortality rate in 2004–2005, deaths per 100,000 people

High (> 24)

Lithuania (96 to 53, − 44%); Moldova (78 to 48, −39%); Kyrgyzstan (54 to 36, − 34%); Romania (48 to 31, − 36%);

El Salvador (44 to 30, − 32%); Nicaragua (35 to 24, − 33%); Chile (31 to 18, − 42%);

Taiwan (24 to 13, −48%)

Latvia (93 to 64, − 31%); Thailand (69 to 49, − 28%); Estonia (48 to 33, − 32%); Panama (37 to 27, − 26%); Uzbekistan (37 to 28, − 23%); Brazil (33 to 25, − 24%); Costa Rica (32 to 22, − 31%); Ecuador (31 to 22, − 30%)

Mauritius (29 to 33, + 15%); Guyana (29 to 133, + 368%)*; Japan (26 to 25, − 6%); Slovakia (24 to 22, − 10%)

Moderate (12–24)

Colombia (24 to 16, − 33%); Venezuela (22 to 14, − 37%); Finland (22 to 15, − 34%); Korea (19 to 9, − 51%); Peru (16 to 11, − 35%); Norway (16 to 9, − 42%); Portugal (14 to 6, − 56%)*; Argentina (14 to 9, − 36%); Malaysia (14 to 9, − 38%)

Poland (24 to 17, − 29%); Cuba (24 to 19, − 22%); Bulgaria (23 to 17, − 23%); Mexico (20 to 16, − 21%); New Zealand (17 to 12, − 30%); Hungary (16 to 13, − 23%); Czech (16 to 12, − 25%); France (15 to 11, − 30%)

Uruguay (22 to 21, − 3%); Paraguay (18 to 25, + 41%); Egypt (18 to 19, + 6%); Croatia (15 to 15, + 3%)

Low (< 12)

Spain (11 to 7, − 33%); Austria (8 to 3, − 67%); Denmark (7 to 4, − 44%)

Serbia (12 to 9, − 20%); Australia (10 to 8, − 21%); Israel (7 to 5, − 29%); Italy (6 to 4, − 21%); Netherlands (5 to 4, − 28%)

U.S.A. (12 to 11, − 10%); Canada (9 to 8, − 11%); Georgia (9 to 17, + 90%); Sweden (8 to 8, − 7%); Guatemala (8 to 20, + 161%); Belgium (6 to 6, − 13%); Switzerland (5 to 5, + 3%); Hong Kong (5 to 4, − 19%); Germany (4 to 4, − 2%); U.K. (3 to 4, + 17%); Morocco (3 to 8, + 177%)*; South Africa (2 to 27, + 1195%)