The Middle East and North Africa region (MENA), comprising of 21 countries, had the highest age-adjusted comparative prevalence of diabetes (12.2%) globally in 2019. One in eight people in the MENA region has diabetes. The International Diabetes Federation has estimated that there will be a 96% increase in diabetes prevalence in MENA countries by 2045.
Researchers from Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates studied the prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2D) in 20 countries of the MENA region (except Sudan) using online bibliographic databases. They noticed that Kuwait had the highest age-adjusted diabetes prevalence among the MENA countries in 2000 and 2014. The MENA countries with highest age-adjusted T2D Prevalence in 2014: Kuwait – 19.6% Qatar – 18.9% Egypt – 17.9% Iraq – 17.4% Saudi Arabia – 17.4% Large-scale studies conducted in Pakistan and Jordan have revealed the increase of…
