Table 4

Global occupational-attributable deaths and DALYs from pneumoconioses due to exposure to pneumoconiotic dusts, by region, 2016 (number and rate)*

Region	Deaths Asb*	Deaths CWP*	Deaths Sil*	Deaths Oth*	Deaths total	%	Death rate†	YLLs %‡	YLDs‡	DALYs	DALYs %	DALY rate†
High-income North America	674	283	118	78	1153	5.4	0.7	55.6	44.4	27 309	4.7	16.5
Australasia	87	1	11	6	105	0.5	0.8	88.4	11.6	1444	0.3	10.8
High-income Asia Pacific	345	279	486	477	1587	7.4	1.5	95.9	4.1	21 657	3.8	21.4
Western Europe	948	330	1388	147	2814	13.1	1.2	92.2	7.8	35 385	6.1	15.5
Southern Latin America	30	17	132	18	197	0.9	0.7	87.9	12.1	3236	0.6	12.5
Eastern Europe	37	29	35	172	272	1.3	0.3	56.5	43.5	8501	1.5	8.6
Central Europe	38	75	83	64	260	1.2	0.4	48.3	51.7	9058	1.6	16.0
Central Asia	14	3	2	49	68	0.3	0.3	63.9	36.1	2460	0.4	8.7
Central Latin America	38	33	90	75	235	1.1	0.3	49.5	50.5	9294	1.6	11.4
Andean Latin America	9	7	20	82	117	0.5	0.7	91.3	8.7	2351	0.4	12.6
Caribbean	4	2	5	13	24	0.1	0.1	61.9	38.1	739	0.1	4.4
Tropical Latin America	65	50	235	117	468	2.2	0.6	85.0	15.0	12 780	2.2	16.1
East Asia	345	960	6443	1080	8828	41.1	1.5	66.5	33.5	303 318	52.6	49.8
Southeast Asia	37	13	39	119	208	1.0	0.1	24.8	75.2	16 480	2.9	7.7
Oceania	5	1	7	17	30	0.1	1.4	86.0	14.0	816	0.1	29.6
North Africa and Middle East	69	43	93	195	401	1.9	0.3	62.7	37.3	13 882	2.4	8.2
South Asia	547	519	1089	1953	4109	19.1	0.9	90.8	9.2	92 603	16.0	18.4
Southern sub-Saharan Africa	133	12	51	64	260	1.2	1.3	92.6	7.4	6142	1.1	28.9
Western sub-Saharan Africa	10	3	5	38	57	0.3	0.1	74.8	25.2	2099	0.4	2.4
Eastern sub-Saharan Africa	47	19	55	108	229	1.1	0.4	89.6	10.4	5745	1.0	7.5
Central sub-Saharan Africa	12	6	15	33	66	0.3	0.4	90.0	10.0	1680	0.3	7.5
High SDI	2015	977	1855	770	5617	26.1	1.0	78.2	21.8	89 690	15.5	17.3
High-middle SDI	307	324	1702	569	2902	13.5	0.6	59.2	40.8	90 287	15.6	18.9
Middle SDI	598	778	5277	1521	8173	38.0	1.0	68.6	31.4	273 759	47.4	31.7
Low-middle SDI	485	548	1440	1781	4253	19.8	0.8	83.4	16.6	109 444	19.0	18.2
Low SDI	90	57	129	266	542	2.5	0.4	88.6	11.4	13 797	2.4	8.8
Global	3495	2685	10 402	4906	21 488	100.0	0.8	71.9	28.1	576 977	100.0	21.9

*YLL=years of life lost; YLD=years of life lived with disability; DALYs=disability-adjusted life years; PAF=population attributable fraction; Asb’=asbestosis; CWP=coal workers’ pneumoconiosis; ‘Sil’=silicosis; ‘Oth’=other pneumoconiosis.
†Per 100 000 persons.
‡Percentage of DALYs.
SDI, socio-demographic index.