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Raised blood pressure (SBP>=140 OR DBP>=90) (age-standardized estimate) by country

Countries reporting
194
Highest
49.24
Paraguay
Lowest
8.69
Canada
Median
31.49
Years covered
30
1990–2019
Data points
6,180

What the numbers show

Raised blood pressure (SBP>=140 OR DBP>=90) (age-standardized estimate) is currently reported for 194 countries. The highest value is 49.24 in Paraguay; the lowest is 8.69 in Canada.

The median across all reporting countries is 31.49, and the mean is 30.39.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 6.

Over the past decade 34 countries rose and 160 fell. The largest increase was in Kiribati (up 26.9%), and the largest decrease in Luxembourg (down 32.4%).

Raised blood pressure (SBP>=140 OR DBP>=90): full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Paraguay 49.24 2019 down 4.3% rising
2 Tuvalu 47.4 2019 up 14.0% rising
3 Moldova 44.26 2019 down 6.9% falling
4 Belarus 44.17 2019 down 4.4% falling
5 Tajikistan 43.39 2019 up 3.2% rising
6 Armenia 43.15 2019 up 1.8% rising
7 Lithuania 41.92 2019 down 11.2% falling
8 Iraq 41.72 2019 down 1.9% flat
9 Sao Tome and Principe 40.86 2019 down 8.4% flat
10 Argentina 40.42 2019 up 7.9% rising
11 Bhutan 39.62 2019 up 4.4% rising
12 Kiribati 39.53 2019 up 26.9% rising
13 Haiti 39.43 2019 up 4.9% rising
14 Oman 39.32 2019 down 7.9% falling
15 Dominica 39.28 2019 down 5.5% flat
16 Tonga 39.23 2019 up 17.3% rising
17 Niger 39 2019 down 9.2% flat
18 Central African Republic 38.97 2019 down 4.7% flat
19 Croatia 38.92 2019 down 4.1% falling
20 Dominican Republic 38.52 2019 down 3.0% flat
21 Indonesia 38.47 2019 up 13.3% rising
22 Pakistan 38.29 2019 up 3.4% rising
23 Albania 38.25 2019 down 2.3% falling
24 Uzbekistan 38.16 2019 up 17.5% rising
25 Palau 38.06 2019 down 3.7% rising
26 Libya 37.99 2019 down 9.1% falling
27 Guinea 37.94 2019 down 9.2% flat
28 Cape Verde 37.88 2019 down 12.0% falling
29 Grenada 37.76 2019 down 2.6% flat
30 Vanuatu 37.59 2019 up 4.6% rising
31 Sudan 37.5 2019 down 7.7% flat
32 Hungary 37.42 2019 down 10.3% falling
33 Jamaica 37.42 2019 up 2.8% rising
34 French Polynesia 37.4 2019 up 6.7% rising
35 Sierra Leone 37.33 2019 down 9.7% flat
36 Eswatini 37.26 2019 down 10.1% flat
37 Ukraine 37.1 2019 down 15.1% falling
38 Georgia 36.98 2019 down 3.0% flat
39 Bosnia and Herzegovina 36.92 2019 down 8.5% falling
40 Kyrgyzstan 36.76 2019 up 3.5% flat
41 Senegal 36.64 2019 down 7.6% flat
42 Russia 36.43 2019 down 14.7% falling
43 Latvia 36.31 2019 down 11.0% falling
44 Liberia 36.08 2019 down 9.3% flat
45 Congo 36.04 2019 down 8.4% flat
46 Botswana 35.78 2019 down 10.5% flat
47 Mozambique 35.75 2019 down 9.2% flat
48 Nauru 35.53 2019 up 7.7% flat
49 Cook Islands 35.53 2019 up 0.4% flat
50 Azerbaijan 35.33 2019 up 3.1% flat
51 Zimbabwe 35.33 2019 down 9.8% flat
52 Saint Kitts and Nevis 35.03 2019 down 4.3% falling
53 Slovenia 34.99 2019 down 9.3% falling
54 Bulgaria 34.87 2019 down 9.2% falling
55 North Macedonia 34.84 2019 down 9.5% falling
56 Montenegro 34.75 2019 down 9.2% falling
57 Afghanistan 34.57 2019 up 0.8% flat
58 Samoa 34.55 2019 up 8.8% rising
59 Madagascar 34.55 2019 down 13.1% flat
60 Bahamas 34.54 2019 down 2.1% flat
61 Serbia 34.53 2019 down 12.4% falling
62 Turkmenistan 34.52 2019 up 1.1% flat
63 Namibia 34.36 2019 down 13.7% falling
64 Angola 34.28 2019 down 7.4% flat
65 Romania 34.11 2019 down 12.0% falling
66 Cote d'Ivoire 34.04 2019 down 9.7% flat
67 Cameroon 33.97 2019 down 1.9% rising
68 Gambia 33.95 2019 down 9.6% flat
69 Estonia 33.87 2019 down 9.5% falling
70 Equatorial Guinea 33.79 2019 down 8.2% flat
71 Guinea-Bissau 33.76 2019 down 10.4% flat
72 Fiji 33.75 2019 up 7.9% rising
73 Mauritania 33.75 2019 down 10.4% flat
74 Chad 33.73 2019 down 10.2% flat
75 South Africa 33.71 2019 down 12.4% rising
76 Trinidad and Tobago 33.55 2019 down 1.0% flat
77 Nepal 33.5 2019 down 4.4% flat
78 Poland 33.29 2019 down 12.1% falling
79 United Arab Emirates 33.26 2019 down 2.7% falling
80 Malaysia 32.92 2019 down 9.6% flat
81 Puerto Rico 32.9 2019 down 2.9% falling
82 Antigua and Barbuda 32.78 2019 down 2.9% falling
83 Lesotho 32.73 2019 down 9.5% flat
84 Syria 32.66 2019 down 12.5% falling
85 Somalia 32.65 2019 down 11.7% flat
86 Denmark 32.58 2019 down 14.5% falling
87 Togo 32.56 2019 down 9.4% flat
88 Seychelles 32.53 2019 down 20.3% falling
89 Brunei 32.46 2019 down 6.9% falling
90 Gabon 32.42 2019 down 8.6% falling
91 Niue 32.23 2019 up 5.7% flat
92 Myanmar 32.16 2019 up 0.1% rising
93 Nigeria 32.08 2019 down 7.9% flat
94 Guyana 31.94 2019 down 2.9% falling
95 Morocco 31.75 2019 down 7.2% falling
96 Mongolia 31.73 2019 down 15.2% falling
97 Palestine 31.63 2019 down 12.8% falling
98 Bahrain 31.34 2019 down 8.7% falling
99 East Timor 31.31 2019 up 0.9% rising
100 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 31.22 2019 down 3.7% falling
101 Qatar 31.18 2019 down 15.8% falling
102 Kenya 31.16 2019 down 13.9% flat
103 Saint Lucia 31.06 2019 down 2.7% falling
104 Egypt 31.03 2019 down 4.6% falling
105 Tanzania 30.9 2019 down 16.5% falling
106 Algeria 30.44 2019 down 9.0% falling
107 Djibouti 30.38 2019 down 14.2% falling
108 South Sudan 30.35 2019 down 14.1% falling
109 Democratic Republic of Congo 30.31 2019 down 4.9% flat
110 Burundi 30.3 2019 down 14.2% falling
111 Uruguay 30.14 2019 down 9.5% falling
112 Sri Lanka 30.07 2019 up 2.3% flat
113 Uganda 30.05 2019 down 11.5% flat
114 Brazil 30 2019 down 17.4% falling
115 Belize 29.85 2019 up 0.6% flat
116 Tunisia 29.62 2019 down 5.4% falling
117 Mali 29.56 2019 down 10.4% falling
118 Comoros 29.41 2019 down 14.7% falling
119 Zambia 29.22 2019 down 18.8% falling
120 Kazakhstan 29.16 2019 down 12.5% falling
121 Maldives 29.08 2019 down 2.9% flat
122 Micronesia (country) 28.44 2019 up 2.6% flat
123 Benin 28.27 2019 down 15.8% falling
124 Rwanda 28.1 2019 down 12.5% falling
125 Kuwait 28.08 2019 down 15.2% falling
126 Philippines 28.02 2019 down 4.7% flat
127 Lebanon 27.86 2019 down 13.4% falling
128 Slovakia 27.82 2019 down 15.2% falling
129 Solomon Islands 27.81 2019 up 16.1% rising
130 Burkina Faso 27.78 2019 down 12.1% falling
131 Barbados 27.71 2019 down 6.6% falling
132 Ghana 27.39 2019 down 23.0% falling
133 Marshall Islands 27.19 2019 up 6.2% flat
134 Cuba 26.85 2019 down 3.6% falling
135 Czechia 26.82 2019 down 14.2% falling
136 Saudi Arabia 26.79 2019 down 11.9% falling
137 Venezuela 26.54 2019 down 15.8% falling
138 India 26.52 2019 down 9.7% falling
139 Malawi 26.31 2019 down 26.4% falling
140 Guatemala 26.02 2019 down 5.9% flat
141 Finland 25.97 2019 down 13.8% falling
142 Vietnam 25.93 2019 down 3.3% rising
143 Panama 25.81 2019 down 13.1% falling
144 Ethiopia 25.71 2019 down 6.9% flat
145 Jordan 25.65 2019 down 14.3% falling
146 Papua New Guinea 24.98 2019 up 15.2% rising
147 Austria 24.64 2019 down 22.3% falling
148 Ireland 24.62 2019 down 14.8% falling
149 Bangladesh 24.58 2019 up 0.1% falling
150 Laos 24.48 2019 down 4.2% flat
151 Yemen 24.45 2019 down 5.6% falling
152 Italy 24.33 2019 down 22.6% falling
153 Sweden 24.18 2019 down 24.2% falling
154 Chile 23.89 2019 down 21.1% falling
155 Netherlands 23.52 2019 down 24.5% flat
156 Nicaragua 23.43 2019 down 15.0% falling
157 Mexico 23.21 2019 down 20.2% falling
158 Japan 23.19 2019 down 13.7% falling
159 China 23.01 2019 down 12.4% rising
160 Honduras 22.85 2019 down 13.7% falling
161 New Zealand 22.42 2019 down 6.6% falling
162 Turkey 22.16 2019 down 16.3% falling
163 Norway 21.8 2019 down 22.5% falling
164 Australia 21.69 2019 up 6.2% falling
165 Mauritius 21.67 2019 down 31.3% falling
166 Thailand 21.59 2019 down 2.4% flat
167 Luxembourg 21.54 2019 down 32.4% falling
168 Israel 21.19 2019 down 12.5% falling
169 Greece 20.92 2019 down 18.0% falling
170 France 20.9 2019 down 16.2% falling
171 Bolivia 20.87 2019 down 4.4% falling
172 Colombia 20.8 2019 down 21.0% falling
173 Andorra 20.79 2019 down 21.2% falling
174 Eritrea 20.68 2019 down 13.1% falling
175 North Korea 20.55 2019 down 8.0% falling
176 Cyprus 20.55 2019 down 20.4% falling
177 Cambodia 20.01 2019 down 0.7% falling
178 Iran 19.9 2019 down 28.4% falling
179 El Salvador 19.79 2019 down 11.4% falling
180 Singapore 19.66 2019 down 26.1% falling
181 Ecuador 19.39 2019 down 2.0% falling
182 Costa Rica 18.98 2019 down 30.7% falling
183 Spain 18.64 2019 down 28.4% falling
184 Belgium 18.62 2019 down 21.5% falling
185 United Kingdom 18.51 2019 down 15.9% falling
186 Portugal 17.89 2019 down 31.1% falling
187 United States 16.56 2019 up 6.4% falling
188 Germany 16.29 2019 down 29.5% falling
189 Malta 16.26 2019 down 27.7% falling
190 Peru 16.17 2019 down 0.0% falling
191 Switzerland 13.85 2019 down 31.0% falling
192 Iceland 13.28 2019 down 30.2% falling
193 South Korea 12.68 2019 down 28.2% falling
194 Canada 8.69 2019 down 21.5% falling

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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About this data

Indicator
Raised blood pressure (SBP>=140 OR DBP>=90) (age-standardized estimate)
Source
World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (WHO)
Coverage
206 places, 6,180 data points, 1990–2019
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