Facts & Statistics
United States
- Roughly 34 million Americans have type 2 diabetes.
https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/basics/type2.html - 1 in 10 U.S. adults has type 2 diabetes.
www.cdc.gov/media/pressrel/2010/r101022.html - 244,000 American children and adolescents live with type 1 diabetes.
https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/data/statistics-report/diagnosed-diabetes.html - Each year, 1.4 million Americans receive a diabetes diagnosis.
https://diabetes.org/about-us/statistics/about-diabetes - The United States spends an annual 327 billion dollars on diabetes-related expenses. 25% of all US health care spending is for diabetes care.
https://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/programs-impact/pop/diabetes.htm - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, projects that if trends continue, 1 in 3 Americans will have diabetes by 2050.
www.cdc.gov/media/pressrel/2010/r101022.html - 49% to 52% of the population is estimated to have diabetes or prediabetes.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2434682
Global
- 415 million people suffer from diabetes globally.
https://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/infographics/diabetes/world-diabetes-day.html#:~:text=Today%20415%20Million%20people%20worldwide,a%20billion%20will%20have%20diabetes - Approximately 80% of adult diabetic cases occur in low-income and middle-income countries.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhl/article/PIIS2666-7568(21)00089-1/fulltext - China, India, and the United States have the cases of diabetes, with 89.5 million, 67.8 million, and 30.7 million, respectively.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-71908-9 - The world spent 760 billion dollars on diabetes in 2019, and is expected to spend 825 billion by 2030.
https://www.diabetesresearchclinicalpractice.com/article/S0168-8227(20)30138-8/fulltex - It is predicted that 578 million people will have diabetes worldwide by 2030.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31518657/