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BIRTH RELATED LYMPHEDEMA PREVALENCE 

China	224,558
India	201,699
United States	52,246
Indonesia	39,607
Brazil	32,063
Pakistan	30,500
Nigeria	26,404
Russia	23,843
Bangladesh	23,720
Japan	21,275
Mexico	18,723
Philippines	15,390
Vietnam	14,640
Ethiopia	14,054
Egypt	13,670
Germany	13,643
Iran	12,725
Turkey	12,454
Congo, DROC	10,994
Thailand	10,917
France	10,892
United Kingdom	10,377
Italy	9,911
South Africa	8,431
South Korea	8,097
Myanmar (Burma)	7,994
Colombia	7,836
Spain	7,698
Ukraine	7,607
Tanzania	7,198
Argentina	6,686
Kenya	6,435
Poland	6,417
Algeria	6,183
Canada	5,798
Iraq	5,555
Uganda	5,490
Morocco	5,425
Sudan	5,149
Peru	5,023
Uzbekistan	4,854
Malaysia	4,806
Venezuela	4,525
Saudi Arabia	4,523
Nepal	4,437
Yemen	4,088
Afghanistan	4,081
Ghana	4,037
North Korea	4,009
Mozambique	3,950
Taiwan	3,882
Australia	3,817
Syria	3,594
Côte d'Ivoire	3,566
Madagascar	3,449
Sri Lanka	3,442
Angola	3,435
Cameroon	3,234
Romania	3,174
Chile	2,900
Netherlands	2,788
Kazakhstan	2,789
Niger	2,713
Burkina Faso	2,622
Guatemala	2,452
Mali	2,421
Ecuador	2,414
Cambodia	2,233
Malawi	2,184
Zambia	2,174
Senegal	2,143
Zimbabwe	2,126
Chad	1,879
Cuba	1,874
Belgium	1,825
Greece	1,798
Rwanda	1,786
Tunisia	1,779
Portugal	1,760
Czech Republic	1,751
Bolivia	1,738
Guinea	1,756
Burundi	1,700
Haiti	1,681
Hungary	1,660
Somalia	1,633
Sweden	1,582
Belarus	1,577
Dominican Republic	1,563
Azerbaijan	1,518
Benin	1,517
Austria	1,409
Honduras	1,397
United Arab Emirates	1,377
South Sudan	1,377
Switzerland	1,325
Israel	1,312
Tajikistan	1,300
Bulgaria	1,227
Serbia	1,187
Hong Kong (China)	1,184
Papua New Guinea	1,169
Libya	1,067
Paraguay	1,064
Jordan	1,049
Lao PDR	1,043
El Salvador	1,033
Togo	1,032
Nicaragua	1,012
Eritrea	1,000
Denmark	930
Kyrgyzstan	913
Slovakia	907
Finland	901
Sierra Leone	900
Singapore	864
Turkmenistan	851
Norway	835
Central African Republic	833
Ireland	765
Georgia	745
New Zealand	739
Costa Rica	717
Palestinian territories	715
Croatia	715
Lebanon	705
Congo, ROC	674
Bosnia and Herzegovina	640
Puerto Rico (USA)	621
Kuwait	555
Moldova	593
Liberia	579
Panama	568
Mauritania	557
Armenia	546
Uruguay	542
Lithuania	532

Ref:

https://rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/hereditary-lymphedema/

http://www.orpha.net/consor/cgi-bin/OC_Exp.php?Lng=GB&Expert=2416

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK1239/

angiopediatria / pediatric vascular abnormalies

http://www.angiopediatria.com.ar/apweb/pdf/linfedema_en_pediatria.pdf

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