ABC | Volume 110, Nº6, June 2018

Original Article Nascimento et al Cardiovascular disease in Portuguese-speaking countries Arq Bras Cardiol. 2018; 110(6):500-511 Figure 3 – Mortality attributed to cardiovascular diseases in the Portuguese-speaking countries from 1990 to 2016.A. Proportional mortality from cardiovascular diseases (%), B. Age-standardized mortality rate from cardiovascular diseases (deaths/100,000). 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% Percent of total deaths Year 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Cardiovascular diseases Both sexes, all ages Brazil Angola Cape Verde Eq Guinea Guinea-Bissau Mozambique Sao Tome Príncipe Timor-Leste Portugal Brazil Angola Cape Verde Eq Guinea Guinea-Bissau Mozambique Sao Tome Príncipe Timor-Leste Portugal Cardiovascular diseases Both sexes,Ages-standardized 400 500 300 200 100 0 Deaths per 100,000 Year 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Despite their cultural identity, the socioeconomic development was heterogeneous among the PSC. In 2015, the SDI was as low as 0.28 and 0.29 in Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique, respectively, although, in Brazil (0.66) and Equatorial Guinea (0.61), the SDI was closer to that of Portugal (0.75). The same occurred with the Gross Domestic Product per capita (GDP per capita), quantified in United States dollars in that same year, ranging from 606 to 611 in Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique, and from 20,247 to 21,619 in Equatorial Guinea and Portugal, respectively. The percentages of public expenditures on health differed, representing, in 2013, 2% to 3% of the GDP of most PSC, except for Portugal and Timor‑Leste, whose percentages were higher, ranging from 9.1% to 10.4%, respectively, while Brazil was at an intermediate level, currently at 4% of the GDP. 2 505