Selected population-based prevalence studies on diabetes in Africa, 2002–2012
| Prevalence of diabetes (%) | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Study | Country | Sample | Sampling | Setting | Age (years) | Diagnosis | Overall | Men | Women | Undiagnosed |
| Evaristo-Neto11 | Angola | 421 | Random | Rural | 30–69 | OGTT | 2.8 | 3.2 | 2.7 | – |
| Echouffo-Tcheugui15 | Cameroon | 1591 | Self-selected | Urban | 43.7 | FBG | 15.3 | 13.7 | 17.0 | 6.3 |
| Katchunga17 | DRC | 424 | Random | Urban | 53.3 | RBG | 4.7 | – | – | 1.0 |
| Katchunga17 | DRC | 245 | Random | Rural | 58.5 | RBG | 2.9 | – | – | 1.6 |
| Ploubidis18 | Kenya | 2959 | Random | Rural | 64.7 | RBG | 5.1 | – | – | – |
| Ploubidis18 | Kenya | 1437 | Random | Urban | 60.8 | RBG | 10.1 | – | – | – |
| Ejim13 | Nigeria | 858 | Random | Rural | 59.8 | FBG | 4.4 | 7.3 | 3.3 | – |
| Duboz12 | Senegal | 600 | Random | Urban | >20 | FBG | 17.9 | 14.0 | 21.8 | 16.2 |
| Peer10 | South Africa | 1099 | Random | Urban | 43.3 | OGTT | 12.1 (13.1) | 10.2 (11.3) | 13.8 (14.7) | 4.9 |
| Erasmus9 | South Africa | 642 | Random | Urban | 50.9 | OGTT | 28.2 (26.3) | 18.1 | ||
| Baragou16 | Togo | 2000 | Random | Urban | 39 | 2 FBG | 7.3 | 6.9 | 7.3 | – |
| Nsakashalo-Senkwe54 | Zambia | 1928 | Random | Urban | >25 | FBG | 2.7 | – | – | – |
| Hammami14 | Tunisia | 598 | Random | Urban and rural | 72.3 | RBG | 27.4 | 29.2 | 26.5 | – |
| Chamie20 | Uganda | 2283 | Self-selected | Urban | 35 | RBG | 3.5 | – | – | 0.8 |
Figures within parenthesis are age-adjusted.
FBG, fasting blood glucose; OGTT, oral glucose tolerance test; RBG, random blood glucose.