Facts and figures about diabetes

Facts on diabetes

• Fact sheet
  Provides an overview about various topics related to diabetes, including burden, prevention, risk factors, diagnosis, treatment, complications and economic costs
• 10 facts about diabetes
  Brief numbers about diabetes, its causes, and the burden

Figures and graphs

• Burden: mortality, morbidity and risk factors - Chapter 1 of the latest WHO report "Global status report on NCDs 2010"
  pdf, 393kb
• National, regional, and global trends in fasting plasma glucose and diabetes
  The Lancet article with WHO country estimates for diabetes, July 2011
• Global Health Observatory Data Repository
  NCDs: Mortality, risk factors, health system response and capacity