Table 1.

Estimates of prevalence of kidney disease in 4 countries participating in H3 Africa Kidney Disease Network and world development indicators

Country	Population (million)	Medical admissions for CKD per month**	ESRD treated with dialysis per month**	Estimated Prevalence of CKD †	Life expectancy at Birth (years)‡	Gross national income (GNI) per capita‡	Gross Domestic Product (GDP)	Health expenditure per capita (% GDP) ‡
Ethiopia *	97.0	-	-	-	64	$550	54.8	3.8
Ghana	26.8	17.2% (42/244)	62.1 % (18/29)	17.0%	61	$1600	38.7	5.4
Kenya	44.9.	13.9 % (25/180)	60 % (15/25)	4%	62	$1,290	60.9	4.5
Nigeria	177.5	15.2 % (32/211)	69.2% (18/26)	17.6%	52	$2970	568.5	3.5

^*No hospital data available for Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia

^**Medical admissions per month was obtained from data collected during March and April 2015 in Korle-Bu Teaching hospital, Ghana, and the average admission per month on the medical ward over a year in Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya; and University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria; The proportion of medical admissions for CKD per month was calculated with total number of CKD patients admitted by total admissions on the medical ward; The proportion of ESRD on dialysis per month was calculated from the total number of ESRD admissions within the calendar month who required dialysis and could afford it.

^†The prevalence data on CKD for each country was obtained from a systematic review by Stanifer et al (2)

^‡All data on development indicators are from worldbank.org (2014) except health expenditure per capita were obtained from http://www.who.int/countries (2013)