Prevalence of diagnosed diabetes among adults in the U.S. 2000-2022

In 2022, the prevalence of diagnosed diabetes in the United States among people aged 18 and over amounted to 8.4 percent. How many people in the United States have diabetes?It was estimated that in 2022, around 24.4 million people in the United States had been diagnosed with diabetes. The number of people living with diabetes has increased over the past few decades, with only five million people living with diabetes in the year 1980. Diabetes in the United States is more common among older adults with around 24 percent of those aged 65 years and older diagnosed with diabetes, compared to 15 percent of those aged 45 to 64 years. Leading diabetic statesIn 2021, the U.S. states with the highest prevalence of diagnosed diabetes were Alabama, Mississippi, and West Virginia, respectively. Just over 17 percent of adults in Alabama had diabetes that year. Roughly 14 percent of adults in Georgia had been diagnosed with diabetes before or during the measured period, putting the state of Georgia in tenth place.

于2022年，美国18岁及以上人群中确诊糖尿病的患病率达到了8.4%。在美国，患有糖尿病的人数究竟有多少？据估计，2022年约有2440万人被确诊患有糖尿病。在过去几十年中，糖尿病患者的人数有所上升，1980年仅有500万人患有糖尿病。在美国，糖尿病在老年人群中更为普遍，65岁及以上的糖尿病患者约占24%，而45至64岁的人群中糖尿病患者约占15%。领先的糖尿病高发州份在2021年，美国确诊糖尿病患病率最高的州依次为阿拉巴马州、密西西比州和西弗吉尼亚州。当年，阿拉巴马州的成年人中约有17%患有糖尿病。在测量期间，乔治亚州的成年人中约有14%被诊断出患有糖尿病，使得乔治亚州在糖尿病患病率排名中位居第十。