Country grouped by economic index1 | Population per country (thousands)2 | No. of patients (GLOBOCAN data) | Total population (thousands)2 | Total incident population | No. of megavoltage machines | Persons per megavoltage machines | Estimated patients requiring radiotherapy per megavoltage machine3 | Proportion with at least one megavoltage machine | No. of countries with brachytherapy services | Proportion with brachytherapy services |
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High | Â | |||||||||
Antigua and Barbuda | 96 | 198* | 2211 | 5853 | 7 | 315 838 | 460 | 80% | 3 | 60% |
The Bahamas | 386 | 933 | ||||||||
Barbados | 287 | 1245 | ||||||||
St. Kitts and Nevis | 52 | 108* | ||||||||
Trinidad and Tobago | 1390 | 3369 | ||||||||
Upper middle | ||||||||||
Belize | 383 | 358 | 5148 | 10 480 | 8 | 643 512 | 721 | 38% | 3 | 38% |
Dominica | 72 | 148* | ||||||||
Grenada | 111 | 230* | ||||||||
Guyana | 779 | 751 | ||||||||
Jamaica | 2935 | 7348 | ||||||||
St. Lucia | 182 | 376 | ||||||||
St. Vincent and the Grenadines | 110 | 227* | ||||||||
Suriname | 576 | 1042 | ||||||||
Low | ||||||||||
Haiti | 11 123 | 12 366 | 11 123 | 12 366 | 0 | Not evaluable | Not evaluable | 0% | 0 | 0% |