{"id":5166,"date":"2012-06-08T11:18:21","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T19:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malaria.com\/?p=5166"},"modified":"2012-06-08T11:18:21","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T19:18:21","slug":"malaria-statistics-ten-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malaria.epicenter.com\/?p=5166","title":{"rendered":"Malaria Statistics for Past Ten Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What are the key statistics for global malaria over the past decade?<\/p>\n<p><strong>ANSWER<\/strong><br \/>\nThe World Health Organization&#8217;s World Malaria Report summarizes global malaria burden, including trends in mortality rates and economic impact. Here are selected figures from the 2011 report. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Estimated malaria cases, 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Globally: 216 million<\/li>\n<li>Africa: 174 million<\/li>\n<li>Americas: 1 million<\/li>\n<li>Eastern Mediterranean: 10 million<\/li>\n<li>Europe: 200<\/li>\n<li>South-East Asia: 28 million<\/li>\n<li>Western Pacific: 2 million<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Estimated deaths from malaria, 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Globally: 655 000<\/li>\n<li>Africa: 596 000<\/li>\n<li>Americas: 1 000<\/li>\n<li>Eastern Mediterranean: 15 000<\/li>\n<li>Europe: 0<\/li>\n<li>South-East Asia: 38 000<\/li>\n<li>Western Pacific: 5 000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Figures on malaria deaths<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>91% of deaths were in Africa<\/li>\n<li>86% of deaths were in children under 5 years of age<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong> Population at risk<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3.3 billion (half of the world population)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Number of countries affected by malaria<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>106<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Six countries account for 60%, or 390,000, of malaria deaths<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nigeria<\/li>\n<li>Democratic Republic of the Congo<\/li>\n<li>Burkina Faso<\/li>\n<li>Mozambique<\/li>\n<li>Cote d&#8217;Ivoire<\/li>\n<li>Mali<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong> Malaria mortality rates have fallen since 2000<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Globally: by more than 25%<\/li>\n<li>Africa: by 33 %<\/li>\n<li>Americas: by 55 %<\/li>\n<li>Europe: by 99 %<\/li>\n<li>Western Pacific: by 42 %<\/li>\n<li>Between 2000 and 2010 out of 99 countries with ongoing malaria transmission 43 countries recorded decreases of more than 50% in the number of malaria cases<\/li>\n<li>another 8 countries recorded decreases of more than 25%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong> Required health expenditure (Abuja declaration)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>15% of national budget<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong> Economic cost<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Direct: USD 12 billion per year in direct losses,<\/li>\n<li>lost 1.3% of GDP growth per year for Africa.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong> Costs of interventions<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Long-lasting insecticidal net that lasts three years: US$ 1.39 per person per year of protection<\/li>\n<li>Course of artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) for an adult: US$ 0.90 &#8211; 1.40<\/li>\n<li>Course of artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) for a young child: US$ 0.30 &#8211; 0.40<\/li>\n<li>Rapid diagnostic test: US$ 0.50<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollbackmalaria.org\/keyfacts.html\" target=\"_blank\">Roll Back Malaria<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are the key statistics for global malaria over the past decade? ANSWER The World Health Organization&#8217;s World Malaria Report summarizes global malaria burden, including trends in mortality rates and economic impact. Here are selected figures from the 2011 report. Estimated malaria cases, 2010 Globally: 216 million Africa: 174 million Americas: 1 million Eastern Mediterranean: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-questions","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaria.epicenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaria.epicenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaria.epicenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaria.epicenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaria.epicenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/malaria.epicenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaria.epicenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaria.epicenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaria.epicenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}