Table 1 Characteristics of surveys and study populations, by geographical region

From: National evidence on glucose-lowering medication use for diabetes from 62 low- and middle-income countries

Region

Country

Survey year

Survey type

Country income group

Response rate

Sample size

Mean age, years (SD)

# of women (weighted %)

Diabetes prevalence

LAC

Chile

2009-10

Non-STEPS

Upper-MIC

85.0%

3826

47.6 (15.6)

2281 (50.5%)

10.1%

Costa Rica

2010

STEPS

Upper-MIC

87.8%

2306

47.2 (12.4)

1680 (50.9%)

10.2%

Ecuador

2018

STEPS

Upper-MIC

69.4%

3351

44.6 (12.1)

1967 (51.6%)

9.1%

El Salvador

2014-2015

Non-STEPS

Lower-MIC

67.6%

3940

48.2 (16.7)

2467 (54.8%)

10.6%

Guyana

2016

STEPS

Upper-MIC

77.0%

789

41.9 (5.6)

498 (52.9%)

20.0%

Mexico

2018

Non-STEPS

Upper-MIC

90.0%

11,857

49.3 (28.6)

6,52 (58.5%)

18.3%

ECA

Azerbaijan

2017

STEPS

Upper-MIC

97.3%

2394

43.1 (10.0)

1427 (51.2%)

8.2%

Belarus

2016

STEPS

Upper-MIC

87.1%

4423

45.9 (14.0)

2586 (52.4%)

5.2%

Georgia

2016

STEPS

Lower-MIC

75.7%

2969

46.4 (11.6)

2148 (52.7%)

6.5%

Kyrgyzstan

2013

STEPS

Lower-MIC

100.0%

2482

40.8 (9.6)

1567 (48.4%)

5.4%

Moldova

2013

STEPS

Lower-MIC

83.5%

3341

43.8 (12.0)

2125 (50.2%)

7.0%

Mongolia

2019

STEPS

Lower-MIC

97.4%

5436

41.6 (14.1)

3002 (50.5%)

9.9%

Romania

2015-2016

Non-STEPS

Upper-MIC

69.1%

1775

51.5 (11.1)

931 (52.5%)

11.4%

Tajikistan

2016

STEPS

Lower-MIC

94.0%

2171

36.3 (9.1)

1270 (43.6%)

5.5%

Turkmenistan

2018

STEPS

Upper-MIC

93.8%

3304

41.2 (11.6)

1878 (48.2%)

6.9%

SEA

Afghanistan

2018

STEPS

LIC

2500

41.2 (10.0)

1130 (45.8%)

14.0%

Bangladesh

2018

STEPS

Lower-MIC

83.3%

6010

41.8 (14.7)

3142 (52.3%)

9.0%

Bhutan

2019

STEPS

Lower-MIC

96.9%

4709

41.1 (13.3)

2872 (43.3%)

3.6%

Cambodia

2010

STEPS

LIC

96.3%

5026

40.5 (12.9)

3236 (50.8%)

2.4%

China

2009

Non-STEPS

Upper-MIC

88.0%

8098

52.5 (20.8)

4313 (53.3%)

8.7%

Indonesia

2014

Non-STEPS

Lower-MIC

90.5%

4868

43.7 (15.2)

2701 (51.8%)

8.0%

Laos

2013

STEPS

Lower-MIC

99.2%

2083

42.4 (8.3)

1247 (58.4%)

5.7%

Myanmar

2014

STEPS

Lower-MIC

94.0%

7754

41.8 (16.2)

5048 (49.2%)

6.4%

Nepal

2019

STEPS

Lower-MIC

86.4%

4456

40.7 (13.9)

2835 (53.1%)

6.7%

Sri Lanka

2014

STEPS

Lower-MIC

72.0%

3819

43.8 (12.9)

2350 (49.8%)

12.3%

Vietnam

2015

STEPS

Lower-MIC

97.4%

2761

42.8 (10.6)

1580 (50.6%)

3.1%

SSA

Benin

2015

STEPS

LIC

98.6%

4038

39.0 (11.8)

2103 (53.7%)

6.6%

Botswana

2014

STEPS

Upper-MIC

63.0%

2573

39.2 (10.0)

1773 (48.8%)

3.8%

Burkina Faso

2013

STEPS

LIC

99.1%

3944

39.2 (11.5)

1998 (53.0%)

2.7%

Comoros

2011

STEPS

LIC

96.5%

2298

41.7 (9.2)

1696 (73.8%)

4.3%

Eritrea

2010

STEPS

LIC

97.0%

5360

43.6 (15.7)

3801 (80.5%)

3.7%

Eswatini

2014

STEPS

Lower-MIC

76.0%

1863

40.5 (8.8)

1251 (55.9%)

6.6%

Ethiopia

2015

STEPS

LIC

95.5%

6503

37.9 (15.7)

3713 (44.9%)

2.3%

Kenya

2015

STEPS

Lower-MIC

93.0%

3324

39.1 (11.2)

1978 (50.4%)

2.4%

Lesotho

2012

STEPS

Lower-MIC

80.0%

1968

38.1 (8.2)

1294 (49.4%)

2.8%

Liberia

2011

STEPS

LIC

87.1%

1539

37.6 (6.6)

827 (53.7%)

13.1%

Malawi

2009

STEPS

LIC

95.5%

2804

38.7 (9.8)

1936 (49.8%)

0.9%

Mozambique

2014-2015

STEPS

LIC

98.4%

1562

40.6 (7.4)

931 (58.1%)

5.1%

Rwanda

2012

STEPS

LIC

99.8%

5078

38.7 (12.6)

3160 (52.4%)

1.6%

Seychelles

2013

Non-STEPS

Upper-MIC

73.0%

1240

42.6 (6.2)

709 (49.9%)

19.4%

South Africa

2012

Non-STEPS

Upper-MIC

81.3%

2987

44.2 (13.3)

1955 (53.5%)

13.5%

Sudan

2016

STEPS

Lower-MIC

95.0%

5311

40.0 (14.1)

3348 (45.9%)

8.3%

Tanzania

2012

STEPS

LIC

94.7%

4573

39.0 (12.2)

2386 (49.9%)

2.8%

Togo

2010

STEPS

LIC

91.0%

2548

38.9 (9.3)

1287 (51.5%)

3.3%

Zambia

2017

STEPS

Lower-MIC

74.0%

2564

39.2 (9.4)

1566 (50.0%)

8.2%

Zanzibar

2011

STEPS

LIC

91.0%

2173

38.8 (7.9)

1331 (50.9%)

3.6%

MENA

Algeria

2016

STEPS

Upper-MIC

93.8%

5183

42.0 (14.0)

2844 (48.6%)

11.6%

Iran

2016

STEPS

Upper-MIC

98.4%

18,536

47.6 (34.0)

9859 (53.8%)

10.3%

Iraq

2015

STEPS

Upper-MIC

98.8%

2145

45.4 (11.2)

1324 (51.3%)

23.4%

Jordan

2019

STEPS

Upper-MIC

97.0%

2879

42.1 (10.7)

1874 (52.3%)

14.6%

Lebanon

2017

STEPS

Upper-MIC

65.9%

1106

43.5 (6.4)

692 (52.3%)

13.3%

Libya

2009

STEPS

Upper-MIC

73.0%

1771

37.4 (7.5)

789 (46.9%)

13.8%

Morocco

2017

STEPS

Lower-MIC

89.0%

4207

46.1 (16.2)

2736 (50.9%)

13.6%

OCN

Fiji

2011

STEPS

Lower-MIC

80.0%

2424

41.9 (8.8)

1359 (49.4%)

13.6%

Kiribati

2015

STEPS

Lower-MIC

55.0%

984

42.1 (6.1)

549 (55.0%)

20.2%

Marshall Islands

2017

STEPS

Upper-MIC

92.3%

2252

42.8 (9.8)

1168 (51.9%)

31.8%

Nauru

2015-2016

STEPS

Upper-MIC

74.5%

785

40.0 (5.4)

420 (51.1%)

20.6%

Palau

2011-2013

STEPS

Upper-MIC

73.0%

1876

43.2 (7.7)

972 (46.3%)

20.0%

Samoa

2013

STEPS

Lower-MIC

64.0%

1306

41.4 (6.7)

787 (48.0%)

24.6%

Solomon Islands

2015

STEPS

Lower-MIC

58.4%

1440

41.5 (7.1)

782 (51.8%)

5.3%

Tokelau

2014

STEPS

Upper-MIC

70.0%

425

40.8 (4.0)

222 (52.6%)

30.9%

Tuvalu

2015

STEPS

Upper-MIC

76.0%

860

43.6 (6.1)

471 (46.0%)

12.8%

Vanuatu

2011

STEPS

Lower-MIC

94.0%

4406

39.6 (12.1)

2165 (52.1%)

16.2%

 

World (all data)

2009-2019

-

-

89.5%

223,283

42.2 (12.6)

131,189 (51.8%)

10.1%

  1. The Afghanistan STEPS survey did not provide a response rate. Data on age and sex were missing for 9 (0.00%) and 2 (0.00%) participants, respectively. Proportions estimated using the sampling weights provided by each survey. STEPS Stepwise Approach to Non-Communicable Disease Risk Factor Surveillance, LAC Latin America and the Caribbean, ECA Eastern Europe and Central Asia, SEA South, East, and Southeast Asia, SSA Sub-Saharan Africa, MENA Middle East and Northern Africa, OCN Oceania.