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Building a Healthy Society and Workforce: Awareness and Prevention of Diabetes |
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1.1. Health and Cost Burden
Source: IDF Diabetes Atlas, 8th Edition
Application/Key learning points: These are the worrying statistics about diabetes:
- approximately 425 million adults have diabetes; by 2045 this will rise to 629 million
- the proportion of people with Type 2 diabetes is increasing in most countries
- 79 per cent of adults with diabetes live in low- and middle-income countries
- one in two (212 million) people with diabetes are undiagnosed
- diabetes was responsible for four million deaths in 2017
- diabetes was the cause of some US$727 billion in health expenditure in 2017, 12 per cent of total health-related expenditure on adults
- more than 1,106,500 children have Type 1 diabetes in 2017
- more than 21 million live births were affected by gestational diabetes in 2017, which is one in seven births
- 352 million people are at risk of developing diabetes.
Accounting for the shifting age structure of the global population, the prevalence of diabetes is 8.8 per cent among adults over the age of 18, nearly double what it was in 1980. The Word Health Organization (WHO) projects that diabetes will be the seventh leading cause of death by 2030.
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