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. 2017 Nov 10;7(2):020410. doi: 10.7189/jogh.07.020410

Table 6.

Total and per capita direct cost of diabetes mellitus (DM) and national health expenditures by country and GDP group, Latin America and the Caribbean, 2015

Lower–middle Income
National Health Expenditures (US$)
S1 (Lower)
S2 (Higher)
Direct costs (US$×106)
Per capita costs (US$)
Direct costs (US$×106)
Per capita costs (US$)
Bolivia 420 263.4 677 483.8 1244
El Salvador 565 353.2 1084 665.0 2040
Guatemala 462 1054.3 1385 1943.1 2552
Guyana 361 26.9 540 44.9 901
Honduras 428 464.4 1388 855.9 2559
Nicaragua 445 301.1 1091 512.0 1856
Paraguay 874 301.8 931 542.0 1673
Sub–total
508†
2765.1
1014†
5046.7
1832†
Upper–middle income:
Argentina 862 1741.1 1010 3026.3 1756
Belize 487 20.9 728 32.5 1133
Brazil 1318 17 492.5 1227 23 825.7 1672
Colombia 962 2928.3 961 5367.5 1761
Costa Rica 1390 292.1 1047 521.6 1870
Cuba 2280 562.4 551 937.7 919
Dominican Republic 581 317.2 627 470.6 930
Ecuador 1042 1144.8 1379 1753.1 2112
Grenada 758 4.0 580 6.6 957
Jamaica 476 311.7 1538 509.3 2513
Mexico 1091 10 659.1 930 14 246.8 1243
Panama 1678 361.7 1568 605.8 2627
Peru 656 560.7 455 1010.7 821
Saint Lucia 721 8.3 625 13.9 1044
Suriname 947 26.2 625 41.9 1001
Venezuela 950 1773.6 831 2865.3 1343
Sub–total
1012†
38 204.6
918†
55 235.3
1481†
Higher–income:
Bahamas 1818 48.5 1345 2021
Barbados 1198 31.7 928 50.8 1487
Chile 1717 1354.9 987 2054.2 1496
Puerto Rico* 1009.1 2764 1806.6 4949
Trinidad & Tobago 1822 190.2 1356 289.4 2063
Uruguay 1792 97.4 618 129.4 821
Sub–total
1669†
2731.8
1333†
4403.3
2140
Total 1063† 43 701.5 1088† 64 685.3 1818†

* National Health Expenditures (NHE) figure for Puerto Rico was not available.

†Average.