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In 2021 there were 4.1 million people in the UK diagnosed with diabetes, 90% of them having type 2. There were a further 1 million people with undiagnosed type 2 diabetes and 13.6 million people were at risk of developing type 2 diabetes, half of which could be prevented. [24]
The following is a list of the causes of human deaths worldwide for different years arranged by their associated mortality rates. In 2002, there were about 57 million deaths. In 2005, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) using the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), about 58 million people died. [1]
The International Diabetes Federation estimates nearly 537 million people lived with diabetes worldwide in 2021, [152] 90–95% of whom have type 2 diabetes. [153] Diabetes is common both in the developed and the developing world .
The World Health Organization said that almost 15 million people have died directly from COVID-19 or due to overwhelmed health care systems.
The number of people diagnosed as living with diabetes has increased sharply in recent decades, from 200 million in 1990 to 830 million by 2022. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] It affects one in seven of the adult population, with type 2 diabetes accounting for more than 95% of cases.
On a global level, researchers found that 2.2 million new cases of type 2 diabetes and 1.2 million new cases of heart disease in 2020 were attributable to SSBs — representing about 1 in 10 new ...
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By contrast, the World Health Organization (WHO)'s 2008 statistics list only causes of death, and not the underlying risk factors. In 2001, on average 29,000 children died of preventable causes each day (that is, about 20 deaths per minute). The authors provide the context: About 56 million people died in 2001.