The burden of lower respiratory infections and associated risk factors
• Lower respiratory infections (LRIs) include diseases of the lower airways, such as bronchitis, pneumonia, and bronchiolitis mainly affecting children.
• LRIs have a significant impact on the morbidity and mortality rates in Ethiopia.
• This evidence brief presents the burden and trends of LRIs in national and regional states of Ethiopia between 1990 and 2019 using the metrics in the Global Burden of Diseases Study (GBD 2019).
