Table 2 Basic demographic and economic information of four countries in the study

 Geographic location

Sub-Saharan Africa

Southeast Asia

East Asia

South Asia

 Income level

Lower middle

Lower middle

Upper middle

Low

 GDP at market prices in 2017 (US dollar)

$79.26 billion

$223.78 billion

$12.24 trillion

$24.88 billion

 Population, total in 2017

49.70 million

95.54 million

1.386 billion

29.30 billion

 Life expectancy at birth, total in 2016 (year)

67.0

76.2

76.3

70.3

 Poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines in 2017 (% of population)

36.1% (in 2015)

9.8% (in 2016)

3.1% (in 2017)

25.2% (in 2010)

 Human Capital Index

0.52

0.67

0.67

0.49

 Proportional mortality due to NCD (% of all deaths) ^b

27%

77%

89%

66%

 Premature mortality from NCDs between 30 and 70 years (%)

13%

17%

17%

22%

 Proportional mortality due to Cardiovascular diseases (% of all deaths) ^b

8%

31%

43%

30%

 Proportional mortality due to diabetes (% of all deaths) ^b

1%

4%

2%

4%

 DALYs per 100,000 at all ages due to cardiovascular diseases in 2017 ^c

1967.13

4393.08

6020.67

3859.18

 DALYs per 100,000 at all ages due to diabetes in 2017 ^c

630.73

1109.21

709.68

708.95