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In the published version the introductory sentence under section heading “UNESCAP SDG database” was missing. We have now corrected the article to include the below sentence:

The UNESCAP database describes the availability and quality of data used for deriving these NCD mortality trends in each country according to the following three category scale:^{5 13}