Table 1

Country status of asbestos ban and mesothelioma identification in 198 countries*

		Asbestos ban		Total
		Banned	Not-banned	Total
Mesothelioma identification	Identified	48	54	102
Mesothelioma identification	Not-identified	6	90	96
Total		54	144	198

P<0.0001 based on χ² test for independence of asbestos ban and mesothelioma identification.
See Methods for full definition of asbestos ban and mesothelioma identification.
*Six ‘early-banned’ countries that banned asbestos in or before 1990, that is, Austria, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland, are precluded from this analysis and are analysed separately in table 4. See Methods for full explanation.