Table 1

Parties participating in the COP meetings by year and income group/WHO region

			Participating parties by income group†								Participating parties by WHO region
Year (location) of COP session	Parties present	Presence as %* of all Parties	Low		Lower middle		Upper middle		High		AFR		AMR		SEAR		EUR		EMR		WPR
Year (location) of COP session	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%
COP1: 2006 (Switzerland)	107	95.5	14	100	28	93.3	27	100	34	91.9	20	95.2	13	86.6	8	88.8	29	96.6	12	100	25	100
COP2: 2007 (Thailand)	128	88.3	19	95.0	40	95.2	30	78.9	36	87.8	27	90.0	18	85.7	9	90.0	32	78.0	16	100	26	96.3
COP3: 2008 (South Africa)	129	81.1	20	83.3	36	80.0	33	78.6	37	84.1	32	88.8	18	72.0	7	70.0	33	75.0	16	94.1	23	85.2
COP4: 2010 (Uruguay)	136	80.0	26	92.9	40	85.1	31	67.4	35	77.8	33	80.5	20	74.1	8	80.0	37	80.4	15	78.9	23	85.2
Parties attending any COP session 2006–2010	161	94.7	28	100	46	97.9	42	91.3	41	91.1	39	95.1	22	81.5	10	100	44	95.7	19	100	27	100

*Based on Member States that were Parties to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control on the final day of the relevant COP session.15
†World Bank income categories exclude a number of small states (including the Cook Islands, Nauru, Niue and Tuvalu) which are therefore not included in these subtotals or in calculating percentage participation by income group. For this reason the sum of participating Parties in each income category is less than the total number of participating Parties in the relevant COP session.
AFR, African Region; AMR, Region of the Americas; COP, Conference of the Parties; EMR, Eastern Mediterranean Region; EUR, European Region; SEAR, South East Asia Region; WPR, Western Pacific Region.