This isn’t the best image. It is taken from a paper in the Lancet: Global, regional, and national burden of chronic kidney disease (CKD), 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. It shows the age standardised mortality rates for chronic kidney disease in Western European countries. The UK (4.5) isn’t the best, it is the 2nd best to Finland (4.0). I am not going to count Iceland (4.3), which is the same size as the borough I live in nor Andorra (3.6) which is a quarter of that!
The UK comes in at 4.5 deaths per 100,000 in 2017. Finland noses ahead of the UK at 4.0. France does well just behind the UK at 4.9. Essentially most other Western European countries are almost twice as bad as this leading group. Austria (12.4) and Germany (11.3) are very bad. The UK has always done well at renal medicine. For some reason it suits our system and inclinations. If you live in Germany you have 2.5 times more chance of dying from chronic kidney disease than you do in the UK.
Phil Taylor 