Diabetes is a complicated disease affecting millions of people all across the globe. Many people die out of diabetes every year and the number has been on an increasing trend year on year. In this article, we shall try to find out the number of people all across the globe who are affected by different types of diabetes.

According to the World Health Organization, the number of people suffering from diabetes was somewhere around 422 million in the year 2014. The disease was mostly widespread in the regions of Western Pacific, America, as well as South-East Asia region. 8.5% among these were adults.

In the year 2015, around 1.6 million people died due to diabetes. As per the World Health Organization, it has been projected that by the year 2040, the number of people who will suffer from the condition will increase to 642 million across the world.

The incidence of diabetes is huge in the whole of America. As per a report circulated by the CDC, around 9.4 percent of the total US population suffered from diabetes in the year 2015. This, in itself accounted for around 30.3 million people. Out of these, 12.2 percent of the population were adults. These numbers include both diagnosed as well as non-diagnosed cases of the disease.

Governments all over the world make massive expenditures to tackle the global disease. In fact, a whopping trillion dollars is being spent across the globe for dealing with this chronic condition.

How Many People Have Type 1 Diabetes?

Type 1 diabetes is a condition which mostly affects the children. As a result, type 1 diabetes is also known as juvenile diabetes. However, if you see some of the recent trends, you will find out the even the adults have started contracting type 1 diabetes to a considerable extent.

• Although it will be difficult to point out the exact number of people who suffer from type 1 diabetes, what is certain is the fact that around 1.25 million people in the United states suffer from this condition. Out of these, 1 million are considered to be adults.
• As per a few types of researches, the incidence of type 1 diabetes in the United States itself will increase to around 5 million people by the year 2050.

How Many People Have Type 2 Diabetes?

Recent studies prove that most recently the cases of type 2 diabetes have increased amongst children as well as young people. This is against the popular trend where type 2 diabetes is mostly contracted by elderly people.

• Cases of undiagnosed type 2 diabetes is actually huge and ranges between 24 percent to somewhere around 62 percent.
• In the United States, the incidence of type 2 diabetes is usually higher in people who belong to the following ethnicities:
• Native and African Americans
• Asian Americans
• The Hispanics, amongst others
• As of 2015, the number of people who were suffering from type 2 diabetes across different parts of the world was somewhere around 400 million. In fact, most of the people who are diagnosed with diabetes are actually said to suffer from type 2.

Thus, as seen above, diabetes is slowly spreading in different parts of the world to a considerable extent. As such, it is imperative that you should take important measures to manage the condition in an effective manner. Adopting healthy lifestyle changes will go a great deal in helping to tackle both type 1 and type 2 diabetes.

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http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs312/en/

http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/204871/1/9789241565257_eng.pdf

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