Table 1: Prevalence rates from in school studies by countries.

	FAS	FASD
	Rate per 1000	Rate per 1000
South Africa [36-39]	50.0	72.3
Whashington, US [40] (Only results obtained in one of the two screened counties are showed, due to low consent rate in the second county)	3.1
US [41]	4.3*
Italy, Europe [42,43]	4.0-8.2*	23.1-47.1*
US City 1 [30]	1.4-2.5*	9.5-17.4*
US city 2 [30]	6.4 -11.3*	14.1-24.8*
Plains Head Start School (US) [30]	10.2	20.3
Croatia, Europe [44]	6.4*	40.7*
Taiwan [45]	1.83*	5.76*
Korea [46] General school, Institutions for intellectual disabilities	2.8*	14.9 *
Croatia, Europe [47] rural	16.9*	66.7*
Rocky Mountain Region, US [48]	2.9-5.5*	10.9-20.3*

Re-elaborated from May [30].

*These percentages do not include children without parental consent: they are rated only based on sample. The other percentages are rated including also those children not enrolled in the study because without parental consent, theoretically assumed as not affected.