Learning about diabetes statistics can help you bettr understand the impact this disease is making on our society. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the American Diabetes Assoication the 2011 diabetes statistics have been released and state there are 25.8 million people or about 8.3 percent of the population in the United States that have diabetes. Out of that only 18.8 million have been diagnosed. There is another 7.8 million people that are undiagnosed and should be tested to maintain a healthy life. 79 million people that have prediabetes.

Here’s the break down in numbers among people diagnosed and undiagnosed in people aged 20 years or older:

These are listed as all people in the mentioned age group.

• Under 20 years of age - 215,000 or 0.26% (approx. 1 in every 400 children and adolescents)

• Aged 20 to 64 = 25.6 million or 11.3%

• Aged 65 and older = 10.9 million or 26.9%

• Men aged 20 or older = 13.0 million or 11.8%

• Women aged 20 or older = 12.6 million or 10.8%

• Non-Hispanic Whites aged 20 or older = 7.1%

• Non-Hispanic Blacks aged 20 or older = 12.6%

• Asian Americans aged 20 or older = 8.4%

• Hispanics aged 20 or older = 11.8%


Among Hispanic rates were:

• 7.6% for Cubans

• 13.3% for Mexican Americans

• 13.8% for Puerto Ricans

• Are 45 or over

• Are overweight

• Are habitually physically inactive

• Have previously been identified as IFG (impaired fasting glucose) or IGT (impaired glucose tolerance)

• Have a family history

• Members of certain ethnic groups (including Asian American, African-American, Hispanic American, and Native American)

• Have had gestational diabetes or have given birth to a child weighing more than 9 pounds

• Have elevated blood pressure

• Have an HDL cholesterol level (the good cholesterol) of 35 mg/dl or lower and/or a triglyceride level of 250 mg/dl or higher

• Have polycystic ovary syndrome

• Have a history of vascular disease

Let’s work hard to change these diabetes facts and statistics to make it a disease of the past. So we can finally, take these diabetes numbers and throw them out the window and stop this disease once and for all.

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