Table 2.
Existence of national strategies for NCD and CKD across 116 countries
| Region | NCD strategya |
CKD strategyb |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes | Under development | No | Nondialysis | Dialysis | Transplant | |
| Overall | 68 (59) | 21 (18) | 27 (23) | 48 (44) | 57 (55) | 47 (47) |
| ISN region | ||||||
| Africa | 18 (60) | 9 (30) | 3 (10) | 8 (31) | 8 (35) | 7 (30) |
| Eastern and Central Europe | 7 (44) | 1 (6) | 8 (50) | 6 (38) | 9 (60) | 8 (57) |
| LAC | 9 (56) | 5 (31) | 2 (13) | 10 (63) | 8 (50) | 10 (63) |
| Middle East | 6 (46) | 4 (31) | 3 (23) | 5 (38) | 8 (73) | 5 (50) |
| NIS and Russia | 3 (50) | 0 (0) | 3 (50) | 2 (33) | 4 (67) | 3 (50) |
| North America | 2 (100) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 1 (50) | 1 (50) | 0 (0) |
| North and East Asia | 6 (100) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 4 (67) | 4 (67) | 1 (17) |
| OSEA | 11 (85) | 0 (0) | 2 (15) | 7 (58) | 7 (58) | 5 (45) |
| South Asia | 2 (40) | 1 (20) | 2 (40) | 1 (33) | 3 (75) | 3 (75) |
| Western Europe | 4 (44) | 1 (11) | 4 (44) | 4 (44) | 5 (56) | 5 (56) |
| World Bank Income Group | ||||||
| Low income | 10 (59) | 5 (29) | 2 (12) | 6 (38) | 3 (23) | 4 (31) |
| Lower middle income | 16 (52) | 5 (16) | 10 (32) | 9 (35) | 14 (58) | 9 (39) |
| Upper middle income | 17 (57) | 8 (27) | 5 (17) | 15 (52) | 20 (67) | 17 (57) |
| High income | 25 (66) | 3 (8) | 10 (26) | 18 (47) | 20 (54) | 17 (49) |
CKD, chronic kidney disease; ISN, International Society of Nephrology; LAC, Latin America and the Caribbean; NCD, noncommunicable disease; NIS, Newly Independent States (of the former Soviet Union); OSEA, Oceania and Southeast Asia. Values are n (%).
a
Number of countries that answered this question (denominator) is 116.
b
Existence of a strategy, whether as an independent strategy or incorporated into a NCD strategy. Number of countries that answered this question (denominator) is 109 (nondialysis CKD), 104 (chronic dialysis), and 101 (kidney transplantation).