About 82.8 crore people around the world are estimated to be living with diabetes in 2022, with over a quarter in India, according to an analysis published in The Lancet journal ahead of World Diabetes Day observed every year on November 14. The figure of 82.
8 crore is over four times the number in 1990, with the largest increase in low and middle-income countries (LMICs), researchers forming the Non-Communicable Disease Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC) said. Between 1990 and 2022, rates of diabetes treatment stagnated at low levels in many of the same LMICs, where cases of the disease drastically increased, resulting in 44.5 crore adults aged 30 and over with the metabolic condition globally (nearly 60 per cent) who did not receive treatment in 2022, the researchers said.
Of the 82.8 crore, India's share formed over a quarter (21.2 crore).
Another 14.8 crore were in China, while 4.2 crore, 3.
6 crore and 2.2 crore lived in the US, Pakistan and Brazil, respectively, the researchers found. NCD-RisC is a global network, coordinated by the World Health Organization, of over 1,500 researchers and practitioners providing information on risk factors for non-communicable disease across countries.
Further, in 2022, almost one-third of the 44.5 crore adults (13.3 crore) with untreated diabetes lived in India.
"Our findings suggest there is an increasing share of people with diabetes, especially with untreated diabetes, living in low- and middle-income countries," said author Jean C.
