India tops global diabetes list with 212 million cases in 2022: Lancet Study
India has the highest global prevalence of diabetes, with 212 million adults diagnosed in 2022, surpassing China and the United States. A new study published in The Lancet reveals that the global diabetic population has quadrupled since 1990, now ...
Mumbai: India was home to 212 million people with diabetes in 2022, the highest in the world, followed by China with 148 million diabetics. The US had 42 million adults with diabetes in 2022, a new study published in The Lancet has revealed.
According to the study the total number of adults living with either type 1 or type 2 diabetes in the world has surpassed 800 million - over four times the total number in 1990.
"Of the 828 million adults with diabetes in 2022, over a quarter (212 million) lived in India with another 148 million in China, followed by the USA (42 million), Pakistan (36 million), Indonesia (25 million) and Brazil (22 million), according to findings from a global analysis published in The Lancet.
The diabetes rate amongst women in India rose from 11.9% in 1990 to 23.7% in 2022, one of the largest increase across other countries. Amongst the men, the diabetes rate rose from 11.3% in 1990 to 21.4% in 2022.
India's Dr V Mohan, co-author of the study, said there is no increase in numbers but the use of criteria to calculate the numbers has readjusted in the jacked up numbers.
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"With the use of fasting glucose and HB1C you get inflated figures. India therefore becomes the country with largest number of people with diabetes much ahead of China which is not a surprise because India's population has overtaken China.
