Table 1.

Prevalence of heart failure in 32 million patients across multiple countries in Asia, Europe and North America, 2018–20

	Canada	Israel	Italy	Norway*	Portugal	Spain	Sweden*	UK	Total	Pooled prevalence (95% CI)	Tau
Prevalence of heart failure
Broad definition (%)	2.26	n/a	1.54	1.84	2.86	1.88	2.22	1.44	1.77	2.01 (1.65 to 2.36)	0.48
Strict definition (%)	1.06	0.60	0.82	1.13	1.43	n/a	1.27	1.05	1.07	1.05 (0.85 to 1.25)	0.27
No of patients with heart failure
Strict definition (n)	11 243	9759	35 660	46 840	1840	n/a	103 182	74 055	282 579
Broad definition (n)	23 953	n/a	67 369	76 561	3681	21 851	180 727	165 244	539 386
Background population >18 years (n)	1 060 153	1 622 570	4 363 833	4 153 579	128 605	1 189 003	8 147 081	11 496 448	32 161 272

Broad definition of heart failure=numbers of patients with a registered heart failure diagnosis in any available healthcare records. Strict definition of heart failure=only patients hospitalised with heart failure as the main diagnosis.

*Countries with nationwide coverage of patients with heart failure and background populations. Background populations were estimated based on the coverage of the healthcare registries for countries in which this information was available. Random effect estimates were used to calculate pooled values and tau describes the estimated SD of the underlying data across countries.

n/a, not available.