1. The number of people with diabetes rose from 108 million in 1980 to 422 million in 2014. Prevalence has been rising more rapidly in low- and middle-income countries than in high-income countries.
2. Diabetes is a major cause of blindness, kidney failure, heart attacks, stroke and lower limb amputation.
3. Between 2000 and 2016, there was a 5% increase in premature mortality from diabetes.
4. In 2019, diabetes was the ninth leading cause of death with an estimated 1.5 million deaths directly caused by diabetes.
5. A healthy diet, regular physical activity, maintaining a normal body weight and avoiding tobacco use are ways to prevent or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes.
6. Diabetes can be treated and its consequences avoided or delayed with diet, physical activity, medication and regular screening and treatment for complications.
7. More than 37 million people in the United States have diabetes, and 1 in 5 of them don’t know they have it.
8. 96 million US adults—over a third—have prediabetes, and more than 8 in 10 of them don’t know they have it.
9. Diabetes is the 7th leading cause of death in the United States (and may be underreported).
10. Type 2 diabetes accounts for approximately 90% to 95% of all diagnosed cases of diabetes; type 1 diabetes accounts for approximately 5-10%.
11. In the last 20 years, the number of adults diagnosed with diabetes has more than doubled as the American population has aged and become more overweight or obese.
12. Medical costs and lost work and wages for people with diagnosed diabetes total $327 billion yearly.
13. Medical costs for people with diabetes are twice as high as for people who don’t have diabetes.