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Table 1 Demographic data and CHC epidemiology in the general population and among migrants in EU/EEA countries

From: Estimating the scale of chronic hepatitis C virus infection in the EU/EEA: a focus on migrants from anti-HCV endemic countries

Country (anti-HCV prevalence; range)

General Adult Population

Migrants from endemic countries

Total Populationa

Estimated no. of CHC cases

Number

Proportion (of the total population)

Estimated number of CHC cases

CHC prevalence

Relative contribution (and range) to burden of CHC

Central estimate

Lower estimate

Upper estimate

Central Estimate

Lower Estimate

Upper Estimate

Austria (0.5%; 0.1–0.7)

7,232,026

25,312

5062

35,437

883,345

12.2%

11,753

8243

15,117

1.3%

46% (15% - 77%)

Belgium (0.9%; 0.1–1.2)

9,263,570

58,360

6484

77,814

1,054,155

11.4%

18,607

9729

32,764

1.8%

32% (4% - 60%)

Bulgaria (1.1%; 0.3–2.4)

6,294,563

48,468

13,219

105,749

62,941

1.0%

1366

605

1836

2.2%

3% (0% - 6%)

Croatia (1.3%; 1.1–1.6)

3632,461b,c

33,055

27,970

40,684

524,609

14.4%

4901

4058

6081

0.9%

15% (10% - 22%)

Cyprus (0.6%; 0.5–0.7)

705,459b

2963

2469

9383

128,712

18.2%

2740

1821

3567

2.1%

92% (<0% - >100%)f

Czech Republic (0.7%; 0.2–0.7)

8,955,829

43,884

12,538

43,884

331,840

3.7%

5937

2596

8219

1.8%

14% (6% – 22%)

Denmark (0.7%; (0.5–0.7)

4,625,032

22,663

16,188

22,663

278,041

6.0%

3894

2244

5194

1.4%

17% (10% - 24%)

Estonia (3.3%; 1.6–4.5)

1,113,355

25,719

12,470

35,071

189,495

17.0%

5090

1625

7033

2.7%

20% (6% - 33%)

Finland (0.7%; 0.6–0.9)

4,535,282

22,223

19,048

28,572

176,980

3.9%

3383

1682

4826

1.9%

15% (7% - 23%)

France (0.7%) (0.5–0.8)

52,901,411b

259,217

185,155

296,248

5,714,076

10.8%

88,799

37,816

154,348

1.6%

34% (11% - 58%)

Germany (0.5%; 0.3–0.9)

69,414,404b

242,950

145,770

437,311

8,888,710

12.8%

128,809

61,796

193,947

1.4%

53% (11% - 95%)

Greece (1.9%; 0.5–2.6)

9464,000c

125,871

33,124

172,245

588,275

6.2%

12,959

9854

15,519

2.2%

10% (4% -16%)

Hungary (0.8%; 0.4–2.7)

8,477,933

47,476

23,738

160,233

336,360

4.0%

6548

4980

7889

1.9%

14% (0% - 34%)

Iceland (0.9%; 0.7–1.5)

255,391

1609

1251

2682

18,311

7.2%

206

111

307

1.1%

13% (4% - 21%)

Ireland (1.1%; 0.7–1.6)

3,586,829

27,619

17,575

40,172

321,771

9.0%

5485

2934

8188

1.7%

20% (7% - 32%)

Italy (4.4%; 1.6–7.3)

51,336,889

1,581,176

574,973

2,623,315

4,118,015

8.0%

78,501

52,730

101,393

1.9%

5% (1% - 9%)

Latvia (2.4%; 1.7–3.3)

1,731,509

29,089

20,605

39,998

271,468

15.7%

6532

2168

9209

2.4%

22% (8% - 37%)

Liechtenstein (0.9%; 0.7–1.5)

31,142

196

153

327

14,672

47.1%

172

82

223

1.2%

88% (35% - >100%)f

Lithuania (2.9%; 0.7–3.0)

2,535,329 e

51,467

12,423

53,242

127,711

5.0%

2795

1046

4142

2.2%

5% (2%- 9%)

Luxembourg (0.9%; 0.6–0.9)

417,377d

2629

1753

2629

104,495

25.0%

1682

659

2710

1.6%

64% (24% - >100%)f

Malta (0.9%; 0.7–1.5)

355,704b

2241

1743

3735

17,833

5.0%

295

182

438

1.7%

13% (5% - 21%)

Netherlands (0.2%; 0.1–0.4)

13,901,653

19,462

9731

38,925

978,698

7.0%

13,262

7278

18,376

1.4%

68% (10% - >100%)f

Norway (0.7%; (0.6–0.9)

4,122,334

20,199

17,314

25,971

357,877

8.7%

4822

2601

6907

1.3%

24% (12% - 36%)

Poland (1.1%; 0.6–1.9)

32,736,685

252,072

137,494

435,398

453,723

1.4%

9633

3080

12,877

2.1%

4% (1% - 7%)

Portugal (1.8%; 0.5–2.9)

8989,849b

113,272

31,464

182,494

642,212

7.1%

13,505

7474

24,179

2.1%

12% (1% - 23%)

Romania (3.2%; 2.9–3.6)

16,880,465

378,122

342,673

425,388

102,854

0.6%

2090

912

2923

2.0%

1% (0% - 1%)

Slovakia (1.4%; 0.9–2.0)

4,580,260

44,887

28,856

64,124

31,460

0.7%

588

281

782

1.9%

1% (0% - 2%)

Slovenia (1.3%; 1.1–1.6)

1,760,726

16,023

13,558

19,720

208,026

11.8%

2030

1607

2563

1.0%

13% (9% - 17%)

Spain (1.7%; 0.4–2.6)

39,637,891

471,691

110,986

721,410

3,748,924

9.5%

55,164

31,440

75,323

1.5%

12% (3% - 21%)

Sweden (0.6%; 0.5–0.7)

7,944,034

33,365

27,804

38,926

773,085

9.7%

10,579

5352

14,452

1.4%

32% (17% - 46%)

United Kingdom (0.6%; (0.4–1.2)

52,082,285b

218,746

145,830

437,491

4,706,765

9.0%

76,535

45,555

118,608

1.6%

35% (6% -64%)

EU/EEA (1.4%; 0.5–1.5)

429,501,677

4,222,026

1,999,421

6,621,241

36,155,438

8.4%

578,663

312,539

859,941

1.6%

14% (4% - 24%)

  1. aSource is EUROSTAT 2013 unless indicated by the following letter
  2. bESS 2011 Census
  3. cOECD 2012/EUROSTAT 2013 age distribution
  4. dOECD 2010/EUROSTAT age distribution
  5. ehttp://www.euras.lt (Lithuanian National Statistics Agency)/EUROSTAT 2013 age distribution
  6. fThe Delta method does not give a reliable confidence interval around the relative contribution as the relative contribution is close to 100% and the distribution of cases in the general population is extremely skewed