Statistics
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides these overall estimates for diabetes and prediabetes:
- 34.2 million people in the US with diabetes (or 10.5% of the U.S. population)
- 26.9 million are diagnosed
- 7.3 million are undiagnosed
- 88.0 million (34.5%, or about 1 of every 3) US adults aged 18 years or older have prediabetes
- only 15.3%, or about 1 in 7 know they have prediabetes
- 14.3 million adults aged 65 and older have diabetes (representing 27.6% of this population or about 1 in 4)
- 24.2 million adults aged 65 and older have prediabetes (representing 46.6% of this population or about 1 in 2)
- The total cost of diagnosed diabetes in 2017 was $327 billion, including $237 billion in direct medical costs and $90 billion in reduced productivity. Care for people with diagnosed diabetes accounts for 1 in 4 health care dollars in the U.S., and more than half of that expenditure is directly attributable to diabetes.
More information is available here:
- CDC's National Diabetes Statistics Report 2020
- CDC’s 2017 Diabetes Report Card
- Economic Costs of Diabetes in the U.S. in 2017