ANNEX 2.

COUNTRY DATA, BY REGION

Regional and subregional classification of countries and territories

The information from countries and territories considered to be malaria-endemic is presented from three broad global regions: Africa, Asia and the Americas, which are further divided into subregions. Groupings are based on geographical proximity and, secondarily, on existing WHO regional groupings.

AFRICA

Central Africa: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Sao Tome and Principe

East Africa: Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mayotte, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania

North Africa: Algeria, Egypt, Morocco

Southern Africa: Angola, Botswana, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe

West Africa: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo

ASIA

Central Asia and Transcaucasia: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan

Eastern Mediterranean: Afghanistan, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey, Yemen

South-East Asia: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor-Leste

Western Pacific: Cambodia, China, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Viet Nam

THE AMERICAS

Central America and the Caribbean: Belize, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama

South America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela