People with diabetes, in 1,000s

589 million adults (20-79 years) are living with diabetes worldwide – 1 in 9.

The total number of adults with diabetes is predicted to rise to 853 million by 2050 – 1 in 8.

4 in 5 adults with diabetes (81%) live in low and middle-income countries.

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Diabetes estimates (20-79 y) - People with diabetes, in 1,000s

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Africa 2,532.9 14,700.0 24,585.6 59,526.5
Europe 22,373.1 52,770.8 65,567.1 72,407.1
Middle East and North Africa 17,007.6 32,600.0 84,688.7 162,616.5
North America and Caribbean 21,375.1 37,700.0 56,196.4 68,102.9
South and Central America 8,553.3 25,121.5 35,366.9 51,499.8
South-East Asia 34,882.2 71,406.9 106,870.2 184,509.4
Western Pacific 44,097.9 131,895.1 215,440.7 253,810.0
Afghanistan - 818.3 1,932.8 4,755.9
Albania 94.3 64.1 261.4 267.8
Algeria - 1,435.1 4,761.8 7,936.9
Andorra - 4.8 7.9 9.6
Angola - 185.3 688.8 1,704.3
Antigua and Barbuda - 7.3 8.6 11.0
Argentina 760.9 1,531.8 4,342.1 5,943.4
Armenia - 191.7 168.1 189.2
Aruba 5.0 11.7 4.2 3.6
Australia 781.3 1,292.1 1,693.7 2,248.5
Austria 232.3 571.0 479.4 510.9
Azerbaijan - 167.1 715.3 1,025.4
Bahamas 15.6 28.8 26.8 36.5
Bahrain 56.3 150.8 197.6 322.8
Bangladesh 1,759.7 8,405.6 13,877.4 23,071.0
Barbados 24.2 29.1 34.4 34.8
Belarus - 676.6 445.4 432.2
Belgium 307.4 514.9 641.6 679.0
Belize 4.0 24.5 31.4 55.6
Benin - 70.6 466.8 1,117.9
Bermuda 4.8 6.5 8.1 6.7
Bhutan - 21.5 57.3 102.8
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 165.3 303.3 194.0 405.9
Bosnia and Herzegovina - 264.9 316.4 302.1
Botswana - 93.9 58.2 118.6
Brazil 3,310.4 12,440.0 16,621.4 24,025.7
Brunei Darussalam - 19.3 44.6 57.0
Bulgaria 254.3 531.6 482.0 397.6
Burkina Faso - 175.1 372.3 951.7
Burundi - 94.2 214.1 593.9
Cabo Verde - 13.1 22.0 43.5
Cambodia - 199.4 723.2 1,163.4
Cameroon 61.1 501.4 774.2 1,913.8
Canada 1,245.5 2,716.1 2,822.1 3,320.2
Cayman Islands 2.9 4.4 6.2 10.3
Central African Republic - 58.2 141.1 374.9
Chad - 197.1 464.2 1,154.2
Chile 131.1 1,190.1 1,863.7 2,381.2
China 22,564.8 90,045.1 147,981.2 168,289.2
China, Hong Kong SAR 614.4 525.4 706.0 762.9
China, Macao SAR 34.5 32.7 52.3 82.9
Colombia 946.9 2,609.3 3,033.8 4,279.5
Comoros - 23.5 39.0 85.9
Congo 8.6 94.6 213.7 441.3
Costa Rica 77.3 271.2 375.7 544.1
Croatia 174.1 218.8 409.8 365.5
Cuba 668.9 939.0 847.4 789.4
Curaçao - - 22.1 25.2
Cyprus 25.3 81.8 106.1 140.0
Czechia 890.5 557.4 765.9 760.1
Côte d'Ivoire 42.7 406.5 529.2 1,284.5
Dem. People's Republic of Korea - 1,507.5 2,043.5 2,344.0
Democratic Republic of the Congo 252.6 730.7 2,859.8 7,254.8
Denmark 561.7 299.5 354.7 375.8
Djibouti - 26.1 41.0 68.8
Dominica 5.8 3.9 6.7 9.2
Dominican Republic 255.0 431.6 1,203.7 1,817.4
Ecuador 209.1 524.2 552.8 893.7
Egypt 3,384.1 7,323.4 13,214.5 24,732.6
El Salvador 161.5 293.1 463.3 733.8
Equatorial Guinea - 14.0 65.6 135.6
Eritrea - 95.5 70.2 163.2
Estonia 45.6 90.7 83.9 81.7
Eswatini - 13.9 40.8 81.5
Ethiopia 268.1 1,377.3 2,297.3 6,031.7
Faroe Islands - - 2.5 2.7
Fiji 42.3 55.4 90.3 130.6
Finland 158.7 340.3 400.4 389.8
France 1,656.8 3,237.6 4,107.0 4,243.9
French Polynesia - 14.9 51.2 63.1
Gabon 5.5 68.6 100.9 190.9
Gambia 2.2 12.3 54.0 133.1
Georgia 247.3 104.6 200.7 198.9
Germany 2,600.0 5,022.2 6,485.3 6,082.6
Ghana 32.3 517.4 317.4 808.1
Global 151,000.0 366,000.0 588,715.6 852,472.1
Greece 468.2 603.4 873.8 834.9
Greenland - - 2.0 2.1
Grenada 7.0 4.8 9.4 12.8
Guam - 10.3 24.4 27.4
Guatemala 148.9 533.3 1,103.7 2,134.1
Guernsey - - 4.2 5.0
Guinea - 181.8 244.6 602.3
Guinea-Bissau - 19.1 39.9 93.3
Guyana 16.0 65.6 75.7 101.2
Haiti 183.7 295.5 541.8 884.2
Honduras 125.1 216.9 259.6 579.4
Hungary 491.5 568.4 765.0 746.5
Iceland 3.6 8.6 21.9 28.9
India 32,674.4 61,258.4 89,826.9 156,740.7
Indonesia 5,654.3 7,291.9 20,426.4 28,584.0
Iran (Islamic Republic of) 1,323.9 4,695.0 5,453.6 8,224.9
Iraq 449.9 1,089.0 2,669.4 5,881.4
Ireland 80.2 191.4 158.5 216.6
Isle of Man - - 6.4 6.1
Israel 273.7 400.3 616.4 958.9
Italy 3,125.4 3,560.4 5,018.4 4,670.5
Jamaica 118.6 258.5 235.6 329.4
Japan 7,113.2 10,674.3 10,763.5 9,446.2
Jersey - 7.9 7.6 9.9
Jordan 194.2 291.6 1,086.5 2,172.4
Kazakhstan 139.8 801.2 842.3 1,043.3
Kenya 190.4 769.3 813.3 1,799.4
Kiribati - 15.0 16.0 29.7
Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244) - - 119.6 167.7
Kuwait 75.6 298.0 908.5 1,312.3
Kyrgyzstan 93.0 154.2 263.1 412.8
Lao People's Democratic Republic - 90.1 255.1 489.6
Latvia - 166.3 126.6 102.4
Lebanon 123.9 527.9 439.7 484.2
Lesotho - 29.1 63.3 115.1
Liberia - 51.0 198.1 461.4
Libya 69.9 436.4 634.8 1,031.1
Liechtenstein - 1.8 2.9 3.0
Lithuania 84.1 235.9 210.6 172.8
Luxembourg 12.1 21.1 33.1 44.4
Madagascar 75.0 428.0 599.3 1,354.5
Malawi - 352.3 540.1 1,398.7
Malaysia 596.7 2,029.9 4,753.9 7,452.6
Maldives - 15.2 30.9 53.2
Mali 18.4 99.8 357.4 987.1
Malta 20.8 30.1 48.0 60.1
Marshall Islands - 7.0 6.0 9.0
Mauritania - 60.6 95.7 243.4
Mauritius 112.6 138.2 218.1 247.5
Mayotte - - 6.4 15.6
Mexico 4,387.3 10,293.7 13,587.4 19,946.9
Micronesia (Fed. States of) - 7.7 12.1 18.9
Monaco - 2.1 2.8 2.1
Mongolia - 117.5 208.5 328.8
Montenegro - 41.9 57.8 60.5
Morocco 384.9 1,267.9 2,881.0 4,244.3
Mozambique 117.3 294.7 404.5 1,150.3
Myanmar - 2,103.7 2,365.8 3,287.4
Namibia - 74.1 62.8 126.7
Nauru - 1.2 1.3 1.7
Nepal - 488.2 1,259.1 2,382.5
Netherlands 415.9 881.6 895.7 896.2
New Caledonia - 14.6 46.1 59.5
New Zealand 104.3 312.1 292.0 355.0
Nicaragua - 282.8 377.0 762.6
Niger - 283.9 505.9 1,570.3
Nigeria 209.4 3,054.5 2,988.5 6,591.9
Niue - 0.1 0.3 0.3
North Macedonia 75.6 134.9 140.8 146.4
Norway 118.9 202.1 246.2 300.5
Oman - 138.4 412.3 813.4
Pakistan 8,789.5 6,349.2 34,532.4 70,189.3
Palau - 1.4 2.7 2.5
Panama 48.2 196.2 312.8 490.8
Papua New Guinea 378.3 216.8 838.0 1,403.5
Paraguay 120.8 205.0 352.2 610.0
Peru 528.4 942.2 1,335.8 2,155.8
Philippines 1,242.2 4,219.7 4,726.3 8,591.7
Poland 1,557.1 3,057.5 3,098.6 3,256.9
Portugal 397.0 1,021.4 1,094.8 1,037.3
Puerto Rico 223.6 388.5 345.8 303.0
Qatar 30.1 216.9 409.3 612.5
Republic of Korea 1,986.0 3,186.4 5,030.1 5,148.1
Republic of Moldova - 80.0 165.5 168.5
Romania 42.5 1,506.3 1,320.0 1,261.8
Russian Federation - 12,593.2 7,577.6 7,664.7
Rwanda - 126.2 130.8 302.2
Saint Kitts and Nevis 3.1 2.9 5.0 6.1
Saint Lucia - 8.6 15.2 20.7
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - 5.8 6.4 7.4
Samoa - 6.6 28.2 44.6
San Marino - 1.8 3.1 3.0
Sao Tome and Principe - 3.6 12.4 25.3
Saudi Arabia 996.7 2,759.6 5,344.6 9,474.0
Senegal 33.5 146.5 251.6 684.8
Serbia - 671.0 718.5 648.8
Seychelles - 3.5 7.4 8.5
Sierra Leone - 72.1 170.0 391.3
Singapore 282.1 426.7 699.1 786.0
Slovakia 324.7 275.5 393.6 458.5
Slovenia 119.5 160.4 153.4 151.6
Solomon Islands - 34.5 38.4 79.7
Somalia - 185.1 377.6 1,042.9
South Africa 886.4 1,946.6 2,324.2 3,941.0
South Sudan - - 207.4 481.9
Spain 2,018.3 2,840.1 4,660.2 4,908.0
Sri Lanka 335.4 1,079.8 1,600.5 1,911.7
State of Palestine - 124.5 315.3 790.5
Sudan 414.3 1,666.6 3,860.6 8,724.2
Suriname 9.9 28.5 53.2 72.9
Sweden 570.3 386.4 566.6 663.5
Switzerland 199.6 423.8 433.3 497.5
Syrian Arab Republic 538.1 889.5 2,246.1 5,330.4
Taiwan, Province of China 1,206.9 1,664.5 2,598.2 3,054.0
Tajikistan - 155.5 383.5 670.4
Thailand 1,489.1 4,014.3 6,360.8 6,629.0
Timor-Leste - 30.0 21.6 39.1
Togo 9.6 81.2 177.5 397.3
Tonga 7.5 6.1 10.1 15.1
Trinidad and Tobago 70.3 117.5 151.2 176.8
Tunisia 176.3 629.6 1,392.9 1,862.3
Turkmenistan - 69.8 264.1 411.6
Tuvalu - 1.1 1.2 1.5
Türkiye 1,834.6 3,502.3 9,603.1 14,054.2
Uganda 88.7 307.9 369.1 1,152.0
Ukraine 1,286.3 1,196.0 2,276.8 2,106.2
United Arab Emirates - 768.0 1,274.2 1,876.5
United Kingdom 1,466.8 3,063.9 4,454.6 4,877.8
United Republic of Tanzania 134.8 472.9 2,928.0 7,590.1
United States Virgin Islands - 11.8 8.7 6.2
United States of America 15,280.0 23,721.8 38,536.4 43,025.3
Uruguay 98.5 148.6 201.5 234.5
Uzbekistan - 812.9 1,501.9 2,220.6
Vanuatu - 17.3 29.0 65.8
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 548.7 1,674.6 1,580.7 2,415.3
Viet Nam - 1,702.7 2,499.9 2,717.8
Western Sahara - - 22.3 41.0
Yemen - 727.1 720.8 1,844.6
Zambia 40.8 243.8 750.4 2,066.9
Zimbabwe 55.4 550.9 106.5 239.3
Country or Territory
Africa 2,532.9
Europe 22,373.1
Middle East and North Africa 17,007.6
North America and Caribbean 21,375.1
South and Central America 8,553.3
South-East Asia 34,882.2
Western Pacific 44,097.9
Afghanistan -
Albania 94.3
Algeria -
Andorra -
Angola -
Antigua and Barbuda -
Argentina 760.9
Armenia -
Aruba 5.0
Australia 781.3
Austria 232.3
Azerbaijan -
Bahamas 15.6
Bahrain 56.3
Bangladesh 1,759.7
Barbados 24.2
Belarus -
Belgium 307.4
Belize 4.0
Benin -
Bermuda 4.8
Bhutan -
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 165.3
Bosnia and Herzegovina -
Botswana -
Brazil 3,310.4
Brunei Darussalam -
Bulgaria 254.3
Burkina Faso -
Burundi -
Cabo Verde -
Cambodia -
Cameroon 61.1
Canada 1,245.5
Cayman Islands 2.9
Central African Republic -
Chad -
Chile 131.1
China 22,564.8
China, Hong Kong SAR 614.4
China, Macao SAR 34.5
Colombia 946.9
Comoros -
Congo 8.6
Costa Rica 77.3
Croatia 174.1
Cuba 668.9
Curaçao -
Cyprus 25.3
Czechia 890.5
Côte d'Ivoire 42.7
Dem. People's Republic of Korea -
Democratic Republic of the Congo 252.6
Denmark 561.7
Djibouti -
Dominica 5.8
Dominican Republic 255.0
Ecuador 209.1
Egypt 3,384.1
El Salvador 161.5
Equatorial Guinea -
Eritrea -
Estonia 45.6
Eswatini -
Ethiopia 268.1
Faroe Islands -
Fiji 42.3
Finland 158.7
France 1,656.8
French Polynesia -
Gabon 5.5
Gambia 2.2
Georgia 247.3
Germany 2,600.0
Ghana 32.3
Global 151,000.0
Greece 468.2
Greenland -
Grenada 7.0
Guam -
Guatemala 148.9
Guernsey -
Guinea -
Guinea-Bissau -
Guyana 16.0
Haiti 183.7
Honduras 125.1
Hungary 491.5
Iceland 3.6
India 32,674.4
Indonesia 5,654.3
Iran (Islamic Republic of) 1,323.9
Iraq 449.9
Ireland 80.2
Isle of Man -
Israel 273.7
Italy 3,125.4
Jamaica 118.6
Japan 7,113.2
Jersey -
Jordan 194.2
Kazakhstan 139.8
Kenya 190.4
Kiribati -
Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244) -
Kuwait 75.6
Kyrgyzstan 93.0
Lao People's Democratic Republic -
Latvia -
Lebanon 123.9
Lesotho -
Liberia -
Libya 69.9
Liechtenstein -
Lithuania 84.1
Luxembourg 12.1
Madagascar 75.0
Malawi -
Malaysia 596.7
Maldives -
Mali 18.4
Malta 20.8
Marshall Islands -
Mauritania -
Mauritius 112.6
Mayotte -
Mexico 4,387.3
Micronesia (Fed. States of) -
Monaco -
Mongolia -
Montenegro -
Morocco 384.9
Mozambique 117.3
Myanmar -
Namibia -
Nauru -
Nepal -
Netherlands 415.9
New Caledonia -
New Zealand 104.3
Nicaragua -
Niger -
Nigeria 209.4
Niue -
North Macedonia 75.6
Norway 118.9
Oman -
Pakistan 8,789.5
Palau -
Panama 48.2
Papua New Guinea 378.3
Paraguay 120.8
Peru 528.4
Philippines 1,242.2
Poland 1,557.1
Portugal 397.0
Puerto Rico 223.6
Qatar 30.1
Republic of Korea 1,986.0
Republic of Moldova -
Romania 42.5
Russian Federation -
Rwanda -
Saint Kitts and Nevis 3.1
Saint Lucia -
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines -
Samoa -
San Marino -
Sao Tome and Principe -
Saudi Arabia 996.7
Senegal 33.5
Serbia -
Seychelles -
Sierra Leone -
Singapore 282.1
Slovakia 324.7
Slovenia 119.5
Solomon Islands -
Somalia -
South Africa 886.4
South Sudan -
Spain 2,018.3
Sri Lanka 335.4
State of Palestine -
Sudan 414.3
Suriname 9.9
Sweden 570.3
Switzerland 199.6
Syrian Arab Republic 538.1
Taiwan, Province of China 1,206.9
Tajikistan -
Thailand 1,489.1
Timor-Leste -
Togo 9.6
Tonga 7.5
Trinidad and Tobago 70.3
Tunisia 176.3
Turkmenistan -
Tuvalu -
Türkiye 1,834.6
Uganda 88.7
Ukraine 1,286.3
United Arab Emirates -
United Kingdom 1,466.8
United Republic of Tanzania 134.8
United States Virgin Islands -
United States of America 15,280.0
Uruguay 98.5
Uzbekistan -
Vanuatu -
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 548.7
Viet Nam -
Western Sahara -
Yemen -
Zambia 40.8
Zimbabwe 55.4