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. 2024 Oct 1;11:1066. doi: 10.1038/s41597-024-03865-1

Table 2.

Variables on which the samples in each country were matched to the population.

Sample Matched Variables N % Sample Matched Variables N %
Algeria N/A 528 0.89 Philippines N/A 145 0.24
Armenia N/A 492 0.83 Poland_1 Age, Gender, Education 1883 3.17
Australia Age, Gender 979 1.65 Poland_2 N/A 463 0.78
Austria Age, Gender 502 0.84 Portugal N/A 499 0.84
Belgium_1 Age, Gender 522 0.88 Romania N/A 411 0.69
Belgium_2 Age, Gender 512 0.86 Russia_1 N/A 718 1.21
Brazil Age, Gender, Education 1261 2.12 Russia_2 Region, Ethnicity 395 0.66
Bulgaria Age, Gender 778 1.31 Russia_3 N/A 322 0.54
Canada_1 N/A 858 1.44 Saudi Arabia N/A 489 0.82
Canada_2 Age, Gender 303 0.51 Serbia N/A 337 0.57
Chile Age, Gender, Region, SES 1992 3.35 Singapore N/A 500 0.84
China N/A 896 1.51 Slovakia Age, Gender, Region, Municipality Size 1027 1.73
Czechia N/A 547 0.92 Slovenia Age, Gender 501 0.84
Denmark Age, Gender, Region 792 1.33 South Africa Age, Gender 496 0.83
Ecuador Age, Gender, Region 679 1.14 South Korea Age, Gender 639 1.08
Finland Age, Gender 625 1.05 Spain_1 N/A 110 0.19
France Age, Gender 1480 2.49 Spain_2 Age, Gender, Region 434 0.73
Gambia N/A 527 0.89 Sri Lanka N/A 413 0.69
Germany Age, Gender, Region 1545 2.6 Sudan Age, Gender 623 1.05
Ghana Age, Gender 522 0.88 Sweden Age, Gender 2393 4.03
Greece Age, Gender 597 1 Switzerland_1 Age, Gender 512 0.86
India N/A 688 1.16 Switzerland_2 Age, Gender 531 0.89
Ireland N/A 753 1.27 Taiwan N/A 206 0.35
Israel Age, Gender, Region, Ethnicity 1384 2.33 Tanzania Age, Gender 104 0.17
Italy_1 Age, Gender, Region 591 0.99 Thailand N/A 586 0.99
Italy_2 Gender 993 1.67 Turkey_1 N/A 359 0.6
Japan_1 N/A 653 1.1 Turkey_2 Age, Gender 347 0.58
Japan_2 Income, Education, Region, Ethnicity 802 1.35 Uganda Age, Gender 476 0.8
Kenya Age, Gender 409 0.69 UK_1 N/A 235 0.37
Latvia Income, Education, Ethnicity 485 0.82 UK_2 Age, Gender 952 1.6
Mexico Age, Gender 490 0.82 UK_3 N/A 287 0.39
Morocco Age, Gender 474 0.8 UK_4 Gender 501 0.84
Netherlands_1 Age, Gender 854 1.44 Ukraine N/A 496 0.83
Netherlands_2 Age, Gender 510 0.86 UAE Broadly representative for age, gender, and nationalitya 554 0.93
Netherlands_3 N/A 500 0.84 Uruguay N/A 497 0.84
New Zealand Gender 1005 1.69 USA_1 Age, Gender 838 1.41
Nigeria Age, Gender 1513 2.55 USA_2 Age, Gender, Region, Ethnicity 2360 3.97
N. Macedonia N/A 878 1.48 USA_3 Age, Gender 5055 8.5
Norway Age, Gender, Ethnicity 997 1.68 Venezuela N/A 110 0.19
Peru Age, Gender 405 0.68 Vietnam N/A 383 0.64

aThe UAE has a widely diverse and distinctive demographic composition characterized by a significant proportion of expatriate residents as opposed to citizens, and availability of current figures is limited by the infrequent publication of such data. Thus, the data included here is broadly representative.