Explanatory notes for 2016 diabetes profiles

Overview

In April 2016 the World Health Organization released the first Global report on diabetes. In conjunction with this report, WHO developed a series of diabetes country profiles to highlight the status of diabetes prevention and control in each WHO Member State. The profiles present information for each country on their diabetes-related mortality, risk factors and national systems capacity to prevent and control diabetes. The profiles include the number of deaths from diabetes and high blood glucose; proportional mortality from NCDs including diabetes, trends in age-standardized prevalence of diabetes; the prevalence of selected risk factors; and information describing current national responses to prevention and control of diabetes. These data were derived from several sources, each of which is explained in the following notes. The mortality and risk factor data presented in the profiles were estimated by WHO using standard methods to maximize cross-country comparability. As a result, they are not necessarily the official statistics of Member States