Economic evaluations of non-communicable disease interventions in developing countries: a critical review of the evidence base

Table 2 Comparison between the number of papers published by region and regional estimates of the burden of non-communicable disease

Region	Number of papers*	%	Burden of disease (hundreds of thousands of DALYs lost)**	%
Sub-Saharan Africa	14	44%	1050	18%
Asia and other Islands	11	34%	1040	18%
Latin America and the Caribbean	4	13%	689	12%
India	3	9%	1714	29%
China	2	6%	1431	24%
Total	34	100	5924	100

* Some papers performed multiple analyses and/or used multiple sources of data etc. Therefore, the presentation of results may suggest that there are more than 32 papers, which is not the case.
**Source: World Development Report 1993 [10]

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