Surveillance for severe acute respiratory infections (SARI) in hospitals in the WHO European region - an exploratory analysis of risk factors for a severe outcome in influenza-positive SARI cases

Table 1 Country population and health care data

	Albania	Armenia	Belarus	Georgia	Kazakhstan	Kyrgyzstan	Romania	Russian Federation	Ukraine
Mid-year population (in million)	3.2	3.2	9.5	4.5	16.4	5.5	21.4	142.6	45.6
% population aged 0–14 years	-	18.5	17.0	17.0	24.4	30.2	15.1	15.2	14.2
% population aged 65+ years	-	10.3	13.9	13.8	6.7	4.5	14.9	12.8	15.5
Live births/year (x1000) (2009)	34	44.4	109.2	63.3	357.5	135.5	222.4	1761.7	512.5
Crude death rate per 1000 pop (2009)	-	8.5	13.97	10.57	8.97	6.67	11.98	14.17	15.41
Hospitals per 100.000 population	1.4	4.0	7.0	6.2	6.1	2.7	2.6	na	6.1
Hospital beds per 100.000 population	267	381	1126	286	725	476	634	na	919
Outpatient contacts/person per year	2.0	3.5	13.2	2.1	6.9	3.6	4.7	9.5	10.7

Source: European Health for All database (HFA-DB) (http://data.euro.who.int/hfadb/). The mean for the period 2009–2012 was calculated, except for % population where data from 2009/2010 are presented.