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Diabetes  /  Future Human Burden

Despite recent advances, diabetes continues to be a major health threat for at least 29 million Americans who have it and the 86 million Americans with prediabetes. The biggest concerns for individuals with the disease are its many complications and co-morbidities; which can cause vision loss, heart disease, stroke, and other debilitating medical conditions. With the aging of the population and the rise in risk factors like obesity, these problems are going to skyrocket, making medical innovation more critical than ever.

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    • Future Impact of DR
      The rise of DR will disproportionately impacting the poorest populations, since 80% of people with diabetes live in low-middle income countries.  
    • People Affected Worldwide by DR
      By 2030, more than 191 million people around the world will be affected by DR—56 million with vision-threatening DR.  
    • In 2034 a projected 44.1 million Americans will be diagnosed with diabetes.  
    • The number of diagnosed cases of diabetes in the United States will increase by 165 percent, from eleven million (4.0 percent prevalence) in 2000 to twenty-nine million (7.1 percent) by…  
    • Even conservative scenarios project that US diabetes prevalence will increase 50 percent by 2050.  
    • New diagnoses of type 2 diabetes are expected to double to a projected rate of about 15 new cases per 1,000 Americans in 2050.  
    • Roughly 38 percent of the adult population (about 100 million people) might have prediabetes in 2021- up from 29.7 percent in 2011.  
    • If current trends persist, it is estimated that 15.4 percent of American adults (40.3 million) might have diabetes by 2021, compared to 11.8 percent (28 million) in 2011.  
    • The Centers for Disease Control predicts that the prevalence of diabetes will rise from approximately one in ten adults today to between one in five and one in three adults…  
    • The number of people in the United States with diabetes is projected to nearly double by 2034, to fourty-four million.  
    • Globally, diabetes affected an estimated 366 million adults in 2011- a figure predicted to rise to 552 million by 2030.  
    • One in three American children born in 2000 are likely to develop diabetes over their lifetimes.  
    • Following the current path, diabetes cases will increase by 52.9% between 2003 and 2023.  
    • Chronic Disease Projected to Become More Prevalent: Prevalence of diabetes is projected to nearly double 2000-2030  
    • Projections of the U.S. population diagnosed with diabetes (in millions)  
    • The number of people age 75 and older with diabetes is projected to increase from 2 million in 2000 to 8.6 million in 2050.  
    • By 2030, more than 30 million Americans could have diabetes–71% higher than in 2000.  
    • Conservative estimates predict that diabetes prevalence will increase 165% between 2000 and 2050.  
    • The number of Americans with diabetes is growing at a rate of 8% a year.