Epidemiology of type 2 diabetes in the Middle East and North Africa: Challenges and call for action

Table 3 Mortality from high glucose and cardiovascular disease extracted from the World Health Organization country profile data site for 2016[75]

2016	Total population (million)	Age-standardized mortality rate for NCD per 100000	Diabetes deaths (n)	Diabetes mortality per 10000	CVD deaths (n)	CVD mortality per 10000
Afghanistan (LIC)	32527000	805.3	7056	2.17	51244	15.75
Algeria (MIC)	39667000	430.7	8390	2.12	69173	17.44
Bahrain (HIC)	1377000	430.1	404	2.93	775	5.63
Egypt (MIC)	91508000	711.8	17851	1.95	245904	26.87
Iran (MIC)	79109000	532.5	14842	1.88	160823	20.33
Iraq (MIC)	36423000	604.5	7279	2.00	51593	14.16
Jordan (MIC)	7595000	542.4	2347	3.09	13384	17.62
Kuwait (HIC)	3892000	541.4	326	0.84	4552	17.62
Lebanon (MIC)	5851000	516.4	1886	3.22	17814	30.45
Libya (MIC)	6278000	567.0	1292	2.06	11638	18.54
Morocco (MIC)	34378000	483.9	10645	3.10	69457	20.20
Oman (HIC)	4491000	404.6	903	2.01	4047	9.01
Pakistan (MIC)	189000000	681	44666	2.36	411569	21.78
Qatar (HIC)	2235000	425.5	359	1.60	1054	4.72
Saudi Arabia (HIC)	31540000	508.5	3737	1.18	42440	13.46
Syria (MIC)	18502000	594.7	1322	0.71	37885	20.48
Tunisia (MIC)	11254000	460.6	3523	3.13	31987	28.42
UAE (HIC)	9157000	460	707	0.77	5970	6.52
Yemen (MIC)	26832000	819.7	3854	1.44	56793	21.17

NCD: Noncommunicable diseases; CVD: Cardiovascular disease; LIC: Low income countries; MIC: Middle income countries; HIC: High income countries.