Diabetes Statistics

Learning about diabetes statistics can help you make informed decisions. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the recent diabetes statistics that have been released state there are 23.6 million people or about 7.8 percent of the population in the United States that have diabetes. There is another 5.7 million people that are undiagnosed and should be tested to maintain a healthy life.

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.

- Aged 20 to 59 – 23.5 million or 10.7%

- Aged 60 and older – 12.2 million or 23.1%

- Men aged 20 or older – 12.0 million or 11.2%

- Women aged 20 or older – 11.5 million or 10.2%

- Non-Hispanic Whites aged 20 or older – 14.9 million or 9.8%

- Non-Hispanic Blacks aged 20 or older – 3.7 million or 14.7%

- 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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