Diabetes - Statistics & Facts
Interesting statistics
In the following 6 chapters, you will quickly find the 32 most important statistics relating to "Diabetes".
Statistics on the topic
Interestingly, countries with the highest prevalence of diabetes can be found primarily on islands in the Pacific and in the Middle East. For example, on the Marshall Islands almost a 33 percent of all adults have diabetes. In comparison, diabetes prevalence in OECD countries remains much lower. However, the United States reports figures significantly above average for OECD countries with a prevalence of around 13 percent.
Over 23 million people in the United States have been diagnosed with diabetes, with the real number estimated to be even higher. In the U.S., a disproportionately large number of people in the Southern states suffer from diabetes. From an ethnic view, non-Hispanic blacks have the highest prevalence in the United States, with around 13 percent of this population suffering from the disease.
Worldwide, health care expenditure to treat diabetes was estimated at almost 730 billion U.S. dollars in 2017. Thus, diabetes treatment is also a huge pharmaceutical submarket. In 2017, global anti-diabetics revenues totaled to 72.2 billion U.S. dollars. Novo Nordisk is the leading pharmaceutical company based on global anti-diabetic revenue. The Danish company is highly concentrated on the manufacturing of drugs for diabetes treatment.
Global overview
Countries and regions
Costs
Diabetes care market
Deaths
Outlook
Important key figures
The most important key figures provide you with a compact summary of the topic of "Diabetes" and take you straight to the corresponding statistics.
Country comparison
Diabetes in the U.S.
- Number of U.S. Americans with diagnosed diabetes in 201523m
- Leading U.S. state based on percentage of adults who ever had diabetes as of 2017West Virginia
- Leading U.S. state based on percentage of adults who ever had prediabetes as of 2017California
- Deaths by diabetes mellitus in 2016 (per 100,000 population)21
