. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Dec 1.

Published in final edited form as: Curr Diab Rep. 2013 Dec;13(6):10.1007/s11892-013-0421-9. doi: 10.1007/s11892-013-0421-9

Table 4.

Prevalence of Diabetes and Impaired Glucose Tolerance (IGT) in Different Regions of the World in 2011 [9]

Region	Diabetes Comparative Prevalence (%)^*	IGT Comparative Prevalence (%)^*
Africa	4.5	9.7
Europe	6.7	8.6
Middle East and North Africa	11.0	7.6
North America and Caribbean	10.7	10.7
South and Central America	9.2	5.4
South East Asia	9.2	3.0
Western Pacific	8.3	5.4

Comparative prevalence adjusts for differences in the age distributions of various countries and regions and allows regional comparisons