Did you know that 1 in 12 people have diabetes.  1 in 2 people with diabetes don’t know they have it. Worldwide there are 387 million people living with diabetes.  77% of people with diabetes live in low- and middle- income countries.   Every 7 seconds one person dies from diabetes.  4.9 million people died from diabetes in 2014.  1 out of 9 health care dollars is spent on diabetes.  In 2014 diabetes expenditure reached US $612 billion.  Diabetes has become a very big business and is not likely to disappear any time soon.  By 2035, over 205 million more people worldwide are expected to have diabetes.  

Visit the following map to see the distribution of diabetes throughout the world. 

2014 IDF Diabetes Atlas 6th Edition