New Delhi: India accounted for the highest number of diabetics in 2022, with more than a fourth of 828 million globally, and nearly 62 percent of diabetics in the country were not receiving any treatment for the disease, a report by the NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) has revealed. The NCD-RisC is a network of over 1,500 health scientists providing data on major non-communicable diseases (NCDs) for all countries. The report, published in The Lancet Thursday, said that in 2022, there were nearly 212 million (21.
2 crore) people—who accounted for 23.7 percent of the population—living with diabetes in India. Of these, around 133 million (13.
3 crore) were not on any treatment for the condition, or taking medications. With nearly 30 percent of diabetics worldwide who were not receiving any treatment, India topped the global chart of diabetics in this aspect too. In comparison, China—the only country comparable with India in terms of population—had far fewer (148 million or 14.
8 crore) diabetics that year. Of these, around 78 million were living without treatment. The findings are part of the first global analysis of trends in both diabetes rates and treatment across all countries.
They also show that in India in 1990, the rate of diabetes was 11.9 percent for women and 11.3 percent for men, which rose to 23.
7 and 21.4 percent, respectively, in 2022. The treatment coverage for diabetic women in 1990, on the other hand, was 21.
.
