Diabetes
Management & Prevention
Diabetes Management
Diabetes Prevention & Prediabetes
Diabetes Data & Reports
National Diabetes and Prediabetes Statistics
The CDC reports the following data about the prevalence of prediabetes and diabetes:
- 11.6% or 38.4 million people in the United States live with diabetes. It is also estimated that 22.8% of adults with diabetes are undiagnosed.
- 38% of adults or 97.6 million people in the United States live with prediabetes. Rates of prediabetes increases to 48% in those over the age of 65.
Utah Diabetes & Prediabetes Statistics
Between 2000 and 2022 the rate of diabetes in Utah increased from 5.8% to 8.7%. This may
not seem like a large increase at a surface level, but the population in Utah in 2000 was 2.3
million and grew to 3.4 million in 2022.
The local Utah health districts with rates of diabetes higher than the state average are San
Juan (16.6%), Southeast (10.2%), Tooele (10.6%), and Weber-Morgan (9.9%). The local Utah
health districts with the lowest rates of diabetes are Wasatch (6.0%) and Southwest (6.9%).
The Cost of Diabetes
In 2022 the total annual cost of diabetes in the US was $412.9 billion. Money spent on diabetes includes direct costs (healthcare spending) and indirect costs (loss of wages, decreased productivity). If this cost is divided by the number of people living with diabetes in 2022, the average amount spent on diabetes management was $11,000 per person annually.
The American Diabetes Association found that; On average, people with diagnosed diabetes have medical costs 2.6 times higher than would be expected without diabetes.
The cost of insulin increased 24-26% from 2017 to 2022. Spending on insulin tripled in the past
10 years—increasing from $8 billion in 2012 to $22.3 billion in 2022.