Prevalence of diagnosed diabetes among adults in the U.S. 2000-2022

In 2022, the prevalence of diagnosed diabetes in the United States among people aged 18 and over amounted to 8.4 percent.

How many people in the United States have diabetes?

It was estimated that in 2022, around 24.4 million people in the United States had been diagnosed with diabetes. The number of people living with diabetes has increased over the past few decades, with only five million people living with diabetes in the year 1980. Diabetes in the United States is more common among older adults with around 24 percent of those aged 65 years and older diagnosed with diabetes, compared to 15 percent of those aged 45 to 64 years.

Leading diabetic states

In 2021, the U.S. states with the highest prevalence of diagnosed diabetes were Alabama, Mississippi, and West Virginia, respectively. Just over 17 percent of adults in Alabama had diabetes that year. Roughly 14 percent of adults in Georgia had been diagnosed with diabetes before or during the measured period, putting the state of Georgia in tenth place.