WHO Simulation: Eritrea Statistics

1. Table

Top Ten Leading Causes of Death in Eritrea

Males Rate Females Rate Both Rate

1. Tuberculosis 13.3% Lower Respiratory 10.11 Tuberculosis 10.75%
Infections %
2. Diarrheal Disease 10.84 Diarrheal Disease 8.61% Lower Respiratory 10.21%
% Infections
3. Lower Respiratory 10.3% Tuberculosis 7.68% Diarrheal Disease 9.82%
Infections
4. Neonatal 8.07% Stroke 7.55% Neonatal Disorders 7.25%
Disorders
5. Stroke 5.42% Neonatal 6.26% Stroke 6.39%
Disorders
6. Ischemic Heart 5.34% Ischemic Heart 5.14% Ischemic Heart 5.25%
Disease Disease Disease
7. Cirrhosis and 4.08% HIV/AIDS 4.53% Cirrhosis and other 3.62%
other Chronic Chronic Liver
Liver Disease Disease
8. Diabetes 2.17% Maternal 4.37% HIV/AIDS 3.22%
Disorders
9. Protein-Energy 2.16% Cirrhosis and 3.08% Diabetes 2.44%
Malnutrition other Chronic
Liver Disease
10. HIV/AIDS 2.14% Diabetes 2.76% Protein-Energy 2.32%
Malnutrition

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Eritrea Sub-Saharan Africa High Income Global

4. Brief Analysis
 According to the GBD Health Profile, Eritrea is projected to spend more money on health

care that is better for the citizens. In the past 20 years, Eritrea has been slowly improving the

health services as seen in the Health Profile and in the lessening burden of diseases such as

Diarrheal Disease. It appears to be slowly moving away from the problem of communicable

diseases and more into the non-communicable diseases seen in higher-income countries, such as

stroke. I was surprised by the fact that stroke was high up on the list of burdens as I expected the

top 5 to fall under the communicable diseases like many of them did. Because Eritrea is a low-

income country, health services are hard to provide especially when the large majority of the

country falls below the poverty line. However, in comparing Eritrea to the rest of sub-Saharan

Africa, they appear to be on par with the rest of the region. While this is not the best of news, it

does show that they are not far behind the rest of the country. While this was not in any of the

final data, I was shocked to see how large of a percentage conflict terror had in 1990. More than

20% of deaths in that year were from conflict and terrorism. This goes back to them being a

lower-income country that cannot afford to save their soldiers in war or protect themselves in

general.