Table 2.
Characteristics of PURE cohort, by country (ordered by 2006 GDP)
| 2006 World Bank country income group | Participants | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Country | No. of Communities | Number | No. Rural (%) | No. Women (%) | Mean Age in years (SD) | ||||
| High income | Canada | 77 | 10412 | 2527 | (24.3) | 5588 | (53.7) | 53.4 | (9.2) |
| Sweden | 24 | 4150 | 902 | (21.7) | 2192 | (52.8) | 52.7 | (9.0) | |
| UAE | 3 | 918 | 429 | (46.7) | 653 | (71.1) | 49.2 | (10.2) | |
| Saudi Arabia | 18 | 1729 | 186 | (10.8) | 734 | (42.5) | 46.5 | (9.0) | |
| Upper-middle income | Argentina | 21 | 7497 | 3897 | (52.0) | 4607 | (61.5) | 51.1 | (9.9) |
| Brazil | 14 | 5581 | 1302 | (23.3) | 3086 | (55.3) | 52.2 | (9.4) | |
| Chile | 5 | 3270 | 694 | (21.2) | 2158 | (66.0) | 51.9 | (9.9) | |
| Malaysia | 36 | 11825 | 7024 | (59.4) | 6736 | (57.0) | 51.3 | (9.8) | |
| Poland | 4 | 2029 | 825 | (40.7) | 1274 | (62.8) | 54.6 | (9.8) | |
| South Africa | 11 | 3252 | 1766 | (54.3) | 2213 | (68.1) | 49.9 | (10.3) | |
| Turkey | 38 | 4060 | 1426 | (35.1) | 2459 | (60.6) | 50.0 | (9.1) | |
| Lower-middle income | China | 110 | 46751 | 23558 | (50.4) | 27318 | (58.4) | 51.0 | (10.0) |
| Philippines | 2 | 1671 | 630 | (37.7) | 1125 | (67.3) | 51.8 | (9.7) | |
| Colombia | 60 | 7506 | 4036 | (53.8) | 4819 | (64.2) | 50.7 | (9.8) | |
| Iran | 20 | 6013 | 2982 | (49.6) | 3137 | (52.2) | 48.5 | (9.2) | |
| OPT | 39 | 1563 | 663 | (42.4) | 780 | (49.9) | 49.3 | (10.0) | |
| Low income | Bangladesh | 56 | 2747 | 1437 | (52.3) | 1504 | (54.8) | 46.0 | (9.4) |
| India | 97 | 27458 | 14300 | (52.1) | 15507 | (56.5) | 48.7 | (10.5) | |
| Pakistan | 4 | 1294 | 373 | (28.8) | 674 | (52.1) | 47.4 | (8.7) | |
| Zimbabwe | 3 | 822 | 568 | (69.1) | 590 | (71.8) | 52.4 | (10.1) | |
| Tanzania | 19 | 1071 | 420 | (39.2) | 833 | (77.8) | 49.9 | (11.3) | |
| Total | 661 | 151619 | 69945 | (46.1) | 87987 | (58.0) | 50.6 | (10.0) | |
OPT occupied Palestinian territory, UAE United Arab Emirates, SD standard deviation, GDP gross domestic product