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

Table 7.

Direct, indirect and total cost of diabetes mellitus (DM) by country and GDP, Latin America and the Caribbean, 2015

Lower–middle income:
Indirect costs (US$×106)
S1 (Lower)
S2 (Higher)
Direct costs (US$×106)
Total costs (US$×106)
Direct costs (US$×106)
Total costs (US$×106)
Bolivia 358 264 622 485 843
El Salvador 245 355 601 667 912
Guatemala 523 1059 1582 1948 2471
Guyana 44 28 72 46 90
Honduras 180 467 648 859 1039
Nicaragua 110 307 417 518 628
Paraguay 229 305 534 546 774
Sub–total
1690
2786
4476
5068
6757
Upper–middle income:
Argentina 1740 1771 3511 3057 4796
Belize 21 22 42 33 54
Brazil 19 052 18 271 37 323 24 605 43 656
Colombia 2805 3087 5892 5527 8331
Costa Rica 286 298 584 527 814
Cuba 1590 581 2170 956 2545
Dominican Republic 464 328 792 481 946
Ecuador 742 1187 1929 1795 2537
Grenada 35 4 39 7 42
Jamaica 239 328 567 526 765
Mexico 17 240 10 835 28 075 14 423 31 663
Panama 344 364 708 608 952
Peru 1209 571 1780 1021 2230
Saint Lucia 11 9 20 14 26
Suriname 51 27 78 43 94
Venezuela 6062 1800 7862 2891 8953
Sub–total
51 890
39 483
91 373
56 514
108 404
Higher–income:
Bahamas 70 50 120 75 145
Barbados 40 33 73 52 92
Chile 2224 1430 3654 2129 4353
Puerto Rico 440 1035 1475 1832 2272
Trinidad & Tobago 315 199 514 298 613
Uruguay 512 105 617 137 649
Sub–total
3601
2852
6453
4523
8125
Total 57 181 45 121 102 302 66 105 123 286