Fig. 4

Health systems score for countries which eliminated malaria versus those that did not, by burden category (‘Yes’ = reached 0 cases, ‘No’ = did not reach 0 cases). This figure shows distribution of health systems scores by baseline burden and the likelihood of reaching 0 cases by 2016. In the first group (< 1 case per 1000 initially), 14 countries (50% of countries in this group) reached 0 cases; in the second group (1–300 cases), the same was achieved by 3 countries (6%), and in the third group (> 300 cases) no countries reached 0 cases