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The overall prevalence increases with age, with the largest increase in people over 65 years of age. [3] The prevalence of diabetes in America is estimated to increase to 48.3 million by 2050. [3] Diabetes mellitus occurs throughout the world, but is more common (especially type 2) in the more developed countries.
Prevalence of total diabetes by age and Global Burden of Disease super-region in 2021. The International Diabetes Federation estimates nearly 537 million people lived with diabetes worldwide in 2021, [152] 90–95% of whom have type 2 diabetes. [153] Diabetes is common both in the developed and the developing world. [10]
Type 1 diabetes or juvenile diabetes is diagnosed mostly in children. This condition is due to little or lack of insulin production from the pancreas. [10] According to WHO the prevalence of diabetes has quadrupled from 1980 to 422 million adults. [11] [12] The global prevalence of diabetes has increased from 4.7% in 1980 to 8.5% in 2014. [10]
The prevalence of the disease continues to increase, most dramatically in low- and middle-income nations. [18] Rates are similar in women and men, with diabetes being the seventh leading cause of death globally. [19] [20] The global expenditure on diabetes-related healthcare is an estimated US$760 billion a year. [21]
In 2012, diabetes caused 356,586 deaths in this region, a zone with the highest prevalence of diabetes in adults (11%) in the world. [16] Turkey reported a prevalence of 33.9% for metabolic syndrome (MS), with a higher prevalence in women (39.6%) than in men (28%). [17]
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Change the Prevalence of Diabetes (2000) map to the right of the epidemiology section and to change it to this updated version. This map shows the Global Prevalence of Diabetes from 2014 utilizing data from 195 countries. The current average rate of global diabetic prevalence is 9.2% or 92 out of every 1000 people.
The St Vincent Declaration has inspired other regional partnerships between the IDF and WHO, [3] especially in response to the emerging pandemic of type 2 diabetes: [4] [5] [6] the Declaration of the Americas or DOTA (1996), the Western Pacific Declaration on Diabetes (WPDD 2000), and the Declaration and Diabetes Strategy for Sub-Saharan Africa ...