Table 1.

Prevalence of oral health outcomes in countries grouped by welfare state regime

Country	n	No functional dentition (dentate participants ≥45 yr of age) (%)	Edentulousness (participants ≥45 yr of age) (%)	One or more impacts on daily life, ‘often’ or ‘from time to time’ (%)
Scandinavian (social democratic)
Sweden	1012	14.40	2.94	17.57
Finland	1017	31.49	12.03	23.05
Denmark	1040	23.26	9.30	13.80
Anglo-Saxon (liberal)
UK	1354	31.50	13.16	23.41
Ireland	1008	41.21	20.62	19.00
Bismarckian
Austria	1005	49.16	16.05	29.91
Belgium	1001	43.03	20.63	22.06
France	1000	34.71	10.02	23.79
Germany	1550	38.50	10.65	15.45
Luxemburg	513	37.16	14.23	27.46
the Netherlands	1007	32.15	17.99	16.31
Southern
Greece	1000	41.67	14.20	25.04
Italy	1032	36.47	10.48	31.60
Portugal	1031	47.82	18.17	28.08
Spain	1003	34.36	11.75	31.09
Eastern
Czech Republic	1066	47.54	18.01	27.14
Estonia	1011	58.63	13.65	33.36
Hungary	1044	72.69	21.13	26.99
Poland	1000	68.25	26.68	24.62
Slovakia	1006	57.78	21.55	23.80
Slovenia	1031	61.02	17.52	21.82
Not classified
Cyprus (Republic)	503	32.94	10.99	26.67
Latvia	1018	57.19	10.09	30.69
Lithuania	1026	59.30	11.05	39.99
Malta	500	29.94	13.89	20.69
Bulgaria	1000	55.67	17.19	37.50
Romania	1010	70.11	15.53	46.79
Turkey	1004	45.91	25.16	48.15
Croatia	1000	61.26	13.31	30.16
Cyprus (CY-TCC)	500	32.13	22.77	39.40
Macedonia (FYROM)	1000	60.76	22.47	49.38

The prevalence of oral health outcomes was weighted and age-standardized by the direct method, using the whole sample for the 31 countries as a standard population.

CY-TCC, Turkish Cypriot Community; FYROM; former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.