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摘要

The Global Burden of Disease 2010 study relied on population estimates by age and sex from the World Population Prospects 2010 revision, the Human Mortality Database, and the WHO mortality database. All these data sources are restricted to populations that meet a certain threshold in terms of size, and none of them provide age-specific and sex-specific estimates for Seychelles. We also conducted an extensive search for other available sources, but did not find a suitable source for age-specific and sex-specific population estimates for years 1970-2010 for Seychelles. We used total population estimates for Seychelles (1950-2010) from the US Census Bureau, and applied the regional average age-sex distribution using data from the UN Population Division.