“…Although the differences in the methodology described above limit the ability to perform cross-sectional or trend comparisons among countries, we note several commonalities. During 2005-2020, some countries reported an increase in the prevalence of diabetes [33, 36, 38-40, 66, 70-72, 79, 85, 86], consistent with previously published reviews [5,15,32,[116][117][118][119][120][121][122][123]. Compared with the rest of the region, and as previously reported [5,15,32,124,125], diabetes prevalence varies across the region, with higher prevalence in Mexico (13.7%), Haiti (14.1% in women and 8.2% in men), and Puerto Rico (12.5-12.7% in the population aged 18 ≥ years and 26.8% in the population aged ≥ 45 years), and lower in Colombia (3.0% in the population aged 18 ≥ years, but 11.2% in age group ≥ 60 years), Dominican Republic (3.5%), Ecuador (2.7%), Peru (3.7%), and Uruguay (5.5-6.0%) ( Fig.…”