Dire Dawa

Dire Dawa City Health Atlas, 2021 presents key results from EPHI and IHME collaborative subnational burden of disease analysis as part of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 for Dire Dawa, a chartered city of Ethiopia. All-cause mortality in Dire Dawa reduced from about 2,200 per 100,000 persons in 1990 to about 931 per 100,000 persons in 2019. The number of DALYs has significantly reduced from about 300,000 DALYs in 1990 to 200,000 in 2019. Total fertility declined from 5.6 births per woman in 1990 to 3 births per woman in 2019, a 48% change. Of the leading causes of YLLs and YLDs in Dire Dawa in 2019, HIV/AIDS resulting in other diseases, Neonatal encephalopathy due to birth asphyxia and trauma and Malaria are the leading three causes. Child and maternal malnutrition is the source of the greatest number of attributable DALYs, followed by Air pollution. The life expectancy in Dire Dawa increased from 46 years in 1980 to 70 years in 2019. Dire Dawa city population will live, on average, 61 healthy years, with 9 years lived with disability.

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