Table 2

Terms used to describe cause of death data availability, estimation methods or data quality across different information sources for NCD mortality in UNESCAP countries, 2000–2016

Country	Population	Cause of death data availability/estimation method / model inputs
Country	(Millions)	UNESCAP availability	UNSD methods	WHS report availability	WHO/GHO estimates methods	IHME model inputs	IHME % well certified*	WHO VR useability*
East and North-East Asia
China	1421	Sufficient	Modelled	Primary data <4 years	GBD2016adj+WHO	Global COD data	69†	47†
DPR Korea	26	Sufficient	Modelled	No primary data	GBD2016 +WHO	Global COD data	0	0
Japan	126	Sufficient	Adjusted	Primary data <4 years	Useable VR	Global COD data	81	83
Mongolia	3.2	Sufficient	Estimated	Primary data >4 years	GBD2016 +WHO	Global COD data	81	81
Republic of Korea	81	Sufficient	Adjusted	Primary data <4 years	Useable VR	Global COD data	81	82
South East Asia
Brunei Darussalam	0.44	Sufficient	Estimated	Primary data <4 years	GBD2016 +WHO	Global COD data	82	85
Cambodia	16.5	Sufficient	Modelled	No primary data	GBD2016 +WHO	Global COD data	0	0
Indonesia	270	Sufficient	Modelled	No primary data	GBD2016 +WHO	Global COD data	57†	0
Lao PDR	7.1	Sufficient	Modelled	No primary data	GBD2016 +WHO	Global COD data	0	0
Malaysia	33	Sufficient	Estimated	Primary data >4 years	GBD2016 +WHO	Global COD data	0	39
Myanmar	54	Sufficient	Modelled	No primary data	GBD2016 +WHO	Global COD data	0	0
Philippines	108	Sufficient	Adjusted	Primary data >4 years	Useable VR	Global COD data	72	75
Singapore	5.8	Sufficient	adjusted	Primary data <4 years	Useable VR	Select national data	98	67
Thailand	69	Sufficient	Estimated	Primary data <4 years	GBD2016 +WHO	Global COD data	58	43
Timor-Leste	1.4	Sufficient	Modelled	No primary data	GBD2016 +WHO	Global COD data	0	0
Viet Nam	98	Sufficient	Modelled	No primary data	GBD2016 +WHO	Global COD data	3	0
Pacific
Australia	25.1	Sufficient	Adjusted	Primary data <4 years	Useable VR	Select national data	90	91
Fiji	0.92	Sufficient	Adjusted	Primary data <4 years	Useable VR	Global COD data	63	68
Kiribati	0.12	Sufficient	Estimated	No primary data	GBD2016 +WHO	Global COD data	0	0
Micronesia	0.11	Sufficient	Modelled	No primary data	GBD2016 +WHO	Global COD data	0	0
New Zealand	4.8	Sufficient	Adjusted	Primary data <4 years	Useable VR	Select national data	96	96
Papua New Guinea	8.6	Sufficient	Modelled	No primary data	GBD2016 +WHO	Global COD data	0	0
Samoa	0.2	Sufficient	Modelled	No primary data	GBD2016 +WHO	Global COD data	0	0
Solomon Islands	0.64	Sufficient	Modelled	No primary data	GBD2016 +WHO	Global COD data	0	0
Tonga	0.11	Sufficient	Modelled	Primary data >4 years	GBD2016 +WHO	Global COD data	0	0
Vanuatu	0.29	Sufficient	Modelled	No primary data	GBD2016 +WHO	Global COD data	0	0
South and South West Asia
Afghanistan	37	Sufficient	Modelled	No primary data	GBD2016 +WHO	Global COD data	0	0
Bangladesh	168.1	Sufficient	Modelled	No primary data	GBD2016 +WHO	Global COD data	39†	0
Bhutan	0.83	Sufficient	Modelled	No primary data	GBD2016 +WHO	Global COD data	0	0
India	1368	Sufficient	Modelled	Primary data <4 years	MDS+WHO	Global COD data	49†	49
Iran	83	Sufficient	Estimated	Primary data <4 years	GBD2016 +WHO	Global COD data	72	64
Maldives	0.45	Sufficient	Estimated	Primary data >4 years	GBD2016 +WHO	Global COD data	66	52
Nepal	30	Sufficient	Modelled	No primary data	GBD2016 +WHO	Global COD data	0	0
Pakistan	205	Sufficient	Modelled	No primary data	GBD2016 +WHO	Global COD data	0	0
Sri Lanka	21	Sufficient	Estimated	Primary data >4 years	GBD2016 +WHO	Global COD data	66	0
Turkey	83	Sufficient	Estimated	Primary data <4 years	GBD2016 +WHO	Global COD data	84	64
North and Central Asia
Armenia	2.9	Sufficient	Estimated	Primary data <4 years	GBD2016 +WHO	Global COD data	92	93
Azerbaijan	10	Sufficient	Estimated	Primary data >4 years	GBD2016 +WHO	Global COD data	0	52
Georgia	3.9	Sufficient	Estimated	Primary data <4 years	GBD2016 +WHO	Global COD data	59	48
Kazakhstan	19	Sufficient	Estimated	Primary data <4 years	GBD2016 +WHO	Global COD data	86	78
Kyrgyzstan	6.2	Sufficient	Adjusted	Primary data <4 years	Useable VR	Global COD data	91	91
Russian Federation	144	Sufficient	Estimated	Primary data <4 years	GBD2016 +WHO	Select national data	88	94
Tajikistan	9.3	Sufficient	Estimated	Primary data >4 years	GBD2016 +WHO	Global COD data	0	67
Turkmenistan	5.9	Sufficient	Estimated	Primary data <4 years	GBD2016 +WHO	Global COD data	88	77
Uzbekistan	33	Sufficient	Adjusted	Primary data <4 years	Useable VR	Global COD data	65	87

*See text for definitions.
†Data for these scores taken from national sample registration systems (31–35).
COD, cause of death; GHO, global health observatory; IHME, Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation; NCD, non-communicable disease; UNESCAP, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for the Asia Pacific; UNSD, United Nations Statistics Division; WHS, World Health Statistics.