Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

ID

English answer:

international dollars

Added to glossary by Joanna Borowska
Sep 27, 2007 03:49
16 yrs ago
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English term

ID

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[Description of a chart:]

Annual health expenditure for diabetes (ID) vs persons with diabetes in the 25 countries with the largest numbers of persons with diabetes in 2007

Billions of ID and millions of people with diabetes

Any ideas? I'm completely lost.

Here's the chart:
http://www.eatlas.idf.org/webdata/docs/Figure 5.2_sm.jpg

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international dollars

You will see the abbreviation explained if you scroll down the page of the link given below and look for the following paragraph:

WHO estimates that mortality from diabetes, heart disease and stroke cost about 250 billion international dollars (ID) in China, ID225 billion in the Russian Federation, and ID210 billion in India in 2005. Much of the heart disease and stroke in these estimates was linked to diabetes.



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Note added at 3 hrs (2007-09-27 07:00:04 GMT)
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This is the web site of the International Diabetes Federation, and they are the people who compiled your chart.
Peer comment(s):

agree Marie-Hélène Hayles : No idea what an "international dollar" is, but that's definitely what it stands for: http://www.idf.org/home/index.cfm?node=41
21 mins
Thank you, Marie-Hélène!
agree Janet Ratziu : yes, the site you found confirms this More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_dollar
56 mins
Thanks, Janet! Yes, that's interesting! I never thought about what an "international dollar" might be, until Marie-Hélène queried it.
agree Dr Sue Levy (X) : bravo!
1 hr
Thank you, Sue!
agree CHEN-Ling
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Thank you, Yang!
agree Alfa Trans (X)
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