Table 1.

Characteristics of kidney units that responded, by ISN region

Characteristics	All	ISN region
		Africaa	E&C Europeb	W Europec	Middle Eastd	NIS & Russiae	S Asiaf	Oceania & SE Asiag	NE Asiah	N America & Caribbeani	Latin Americaj
n facilities	412	76	45	59	11	20	25	54	60	28	34
n countries	78	18	13	12	4	4	5	5	2	3	12
World bank classification, %k
Low income	8	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lower-middle income	26	39	8	0	17	50	100	20	0	0	25
Upper-middle income	27	22	33	0	33	50	0	40	50	0	50
High income	40	6	59	100	50	0	0	40	50	100	25
Healthcare sector, %
Public healthcare	46	49	58	62	91	65	52	41	3	54	41
Private healthcare	27	27	16	16	0	25	20	41	31	32	47
Academic/university hospital	27	24	27	22	9	10	28	19	66	14	12
Location, %
Rural area	10	8	4	20	0	0	0	15	0	39	0
Urban area	79	72	87	68	91	100	88	81	92	29	97
Suburban area	12	20	9	12	9	0	12	4	8	32	3
Services offered, %
Adults only	70	34	82	98	73	100	64	56	63	100	71
Children only	2	3	2	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	3
Both	28	63	16	2	27	0	36	39	37	0	27
Modalities available, %
HD only	49	79	53	22	36	50	56	48	18	64	47
PD only	1	0	4	0	9	0	0	0	0	0	6
HD and PD	50	21	42	78	55	50	44	52	82	36	47

DOPPS, Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study; E&C Europe, Eastern and Central Europe; HD, hemodialysis; N America & Caribbean, North America and Caribbean; NE Asia, North East Asia; NIS & Russia, Newly Independent States and Russia; PD, peritoneal dialysis; REF, reference; S Asia, South Asia; SE Asia & Oceania, South East Asia and Oceania; W Europe, Western Europe.

^aAlgeria, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of the Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Namibia, Nigeria, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tunisia.

^bAlbania, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey.

^cAustria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, UK.

^dIran, Kuwait, Oman, Syria.

^eBelarus, Georgia, Russia, Ukraine.

^fBangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka.

^gAustralia, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines.

^hSouth Korea, China (results for China included a prior survey wave of China between May and June 2020 as part of the DOPPS Study. Although other countries were also surveyed, only China is displayed here because there were no responses from China in the ISN-DOPPS survey wave, and the number of positive cases, availability of PPE and testing are thought to be consistent across the pandemic [REF]).

ⁱCanada, The Bahamas, USA.

^jArgentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela.

^kIncome classification is based on the World Bank (worldbank.org). China-DOPPS was not asked whether pediatric/adult services were offered.