People living with type 2 diabetes worldwide, 2021 (diabetes cases times the type 2 share, both from GBD 2021)
529 million ... 96·0%
people, worldwide
“In 2021, there were 529 million (95% uncertainty interval [UI] 500-564) people living with diabetes worldwide ... type 2 diabetes, which in 2021 accounted for 96·0% (95·1-96·8) of diabetes cases”
- Kind of source
- Peer-reviewed study
- Read on
- 2026-11-06
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- What to know
- The paper states all diabetes and the type 2 share; the type 2 count is their product. It replaces the all-diabetes count as the type 2 figure.
- Arithmetic
- 529,000,000 people with diabetes x 96.0% type 2 = 507,840,000 people.
- About
- Type 2 diabetes
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Kept as evidence; no figure on the platform is computed from it yet.
Replaces an earlier figure: 529 million (GBD 2021 Diabetes Collaborators, Lancet 2023, 2023)