Comparison of all-cause and malaria-specific mortality from two West African countries with different malaria transmission patterns

Table 4 Malaria mortality rates in The Gambia for children under five from DSS based studies

			Rates per 1,000 PY ²
Study area	N¹	Year(s) of study	IMR	CMR	U5MR	Reference
Farafenni area	3398	1981–83	6.3	10.7	8.5	[39]
	2505	1982–83		13.6	9.9	[58]
	768	1990–91			18.2	[69]
	651	1991		7.9	3.5	[68]
	173	1993–94		18.5		[70]
	487	1999			12.5	[61]
	1364	1999			11.8	[60]
Banjul area	9584	1988–90			14.5 ⁴	[67]
	576	1992–94			12.6 ⁴	[23]
Upper River Division	2393	1982–83		9.6		[63]
	931	1986–87		5.1
	389	1985			13.0	[64]
	25670	1988–89	7.8	5.6	6.3	[22]
	5414	1989	10.3	6.3	7.3	[29,65]
	5119	1990	8.8	7.2	7.6
	5256	1991	14.1	9.6	10.6
	5324	1992	5.3	4.6	4.8
	5781	1993	8.8	9.1	9.0
	624	1992–94		15.6		[71]
Lower River Division (South Bank)	20000³	1988–89	13.0	16.7	15.8	[21]
	1538	1988	2.8	11.1	6.9	[66]
	1592	1989	2.8	11.3	7.1	[31]

¹ Number of children below five years.
² IMR, CMR and U5MR are rates per 1,000 person-years. IMR = Infant Mortality Rate(0–1), CMR = Child Mortality Rate(1–4 years), U5MR = Under-five Mortality Rate(0–4). Estimated mortality rates are in italics.
³ Whole population and not under-5 year population.
⁴ Malaria diagnosis laboratory confirmed.

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