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Table 1 Demographics by 5-year time periods

From: Epidemiology of surgery in a protracted humanitarian setting: a 20-year retrospective study of Nyarugusu Refugee Camp, Kigoma, Western Tanzania

 

Overall 2000–2020

2000–2005

2006–2010

2011–2015

2016–2020

N

10,780a

1609

1812

3244

4115

Age (in years)

 Average (SD)

26.3 (10.6)

28.0 (13.6)

26.0 (10.6)

26.0 (10.3)

26.2 (9.5)

 Under 18

1241 (11.5%)

245 (15.2%)

287 (15.8%)

424 (13.1%)

285 (6.9%)

 Age 18 to 29

6073 (56.3%)

716 (44.5%)

919 (50.7%)

1779 (54.8%)

2659 (64.6%)

 Age 30 to 44

2670 (24.8%)

382 (23.7%)

487 (26.9%)

859 (26.5%)

942 (22.9%)

 Age 45 to 60

347 (3.2%)

84 (5.2%)

65 (3.6%)

111 (3.4%)

87 (2.1%)

 Age 60+

224 (2.1%)

75 (4.7%)

29 (1.6%)

46 (1.4%)

74 (1.8%)

 Missing

225 (2.1%)

107 (6.7%)

25 (1.4%)

25 (0.8%)

68 (1.7%)

Sex

 Male

992 (9.2%)

291 (18.1%)

173 (9.5%)

257 (7.9%)

271 (6.6%)

 Female

9722 (90.2%)

1302 (80.9%)

1624 (89.6%)

2979 (91.8%)

3817 (92.8%)

 Missing

66 (0.6%)

16 (1.0%)

15 (0.8%)

8 (0.2%)

27 (0.7%)

Nationality

 DRC

5894 (54.7%)

1228 (76.3%)

1337 (73.8%)

1868 (57.6%)

1461 (35.5%)

 Burundi

1707 (15.8%)

2 (0.1%)

0 (0.0%)

267 (8.2%)

1438 (34.9%)

 Tanzanian

2719 (25.2%)

286 (17.8%)

462 (25.5%)

981 (30.2%)

990 (24.1%)

 Other

158 (1.5%)

7 (0.4%)

1 (0.1%)

84 (2.6%)

66 (1.6%)

 Missing

302 (2.8%)

86 (5.3%)

12 (0.7%)

44 (1.4%)

160 (3.9%)

  1. aRecords that were missing a year variable were excluded (n = 19)