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Table 8 Estimated worldwide annual non-fatal UAPP among the farming/occupational population by region

From: The global distribution of acute unintentional pesticide poisoning: estimations based on a systematic review

Region

Subregion

Population in subregion

Population in reviewa

Weightb

Number of countriesa

Sum of non-fatal cases in review

Estimated non-fatal cases in subregion

AFRICA

East

110,892,829

72,889,835

0.66

6

33,480,337

50,936,173

Middle-Southern

43,418,696

5,519,071

0.13

1

2,696,550

21,213,838

Northern

18,237,245

4,189,286

0.23

1

2,216,132

9,647,501

Western

52,622,701

28,778,253

0.55

6

18,502,947

33,833,710

AMERICA

Caribbean

3,602,799

1,271,668

0.35

1

203,466

576,445

Central

11,986,716

259,564

0.02

1

83,060

3,835,727

North

2,931,504

2,294,329

0.78

1

1078

1377

South

24,345,793

18,917,959

0.78

6

6,165,372

7,934,306

ASIA

Central

6,983,220

0

0.00

0

.

.

Eastern

152,053,052

189,363,417

1.25

2

20,793,763

16,696,758

South-Eastern

105,088,068

94,439,399

0.90

6

49,645,682

55,243,562

Southern

292,859,652

282,851,206

0.97

5

174,141,658

180,303,510

Western Asia

14,083,454

889,267

0.06

3

231,353

3,663,972

EUROPE

Eastern

12,990,116

0

0.00

0

.

.

Northern

919,915

397,175

0.43

1

91,350

211,580

Southern

4,008,995

1,324,195

0.33

2

418,900

1,268,217

Western

1,920,615

797,471

0.42

1

57,863

139,357

OCEANIA

AUS, NZ, Mel-Mic-Polynesia

1,620,369

349,697

0.22

1

270

1251

All

 

860,565,737

704,531,792

 

44

308,729,782

385,507,286

  1. acountries with data on non-fatal UAPP
  2. bwj = population in review divided by region’s population, details see text Estimation of international UAPP