Fig. 3: Medication use patterns stratified by country-income group.

Proportion of all individuals (A) with diabetes who are diagnosed and (B) with diagnosed diabetes across countries who use no medication, oral medication only, insulin only, or a combination of oral medication and insulin, by World Bank country-income group (low-income countries [N = 2104]; lower-middle-income countries [N = 8244], upper-middle-income countries [N = 11,367]) at time of survey data collection. Estimated using re-scaled sampling weights, such that each country was weighted equally. LIC low-income countries, MIC middle-income countries. Right edges of bars indicate weighted proportion estimates; error bars indicate 95%-confidence intervals. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.