Diabetes
Data are for the U.S.
Morbidity: Adults age 20 and older
- Percent with diabetes (physician-diagnosed or undiagnosed): 15.8%
- Percent with physician-diagnosed diabetes: 11.3%
- Percent with undiagnosed diabetes: 4.5%
Physician office visits
- Number of visits to physician offices with type 2 diabetes as the primary diagnosis: 38.2 million
- Percent of visits to physician offices with type 1, type 2, and other unspecified type diabetes indicated on the medial record: 14.2%
Source: National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2019 National Summary Tables, table 14, 16 [PDF – 865 KB]
Emergency department visits
- Number of visits to emergency departments with type 2 diabetes as the primary diagnosis: 564,000
Mortality
- Number of deaths: 95,190
- Deaths per 100,000 population: 28.4
- Cause of death rank: 7
Source: National Vital Statistics System – Mortality Data (2023) via CDC WONDER
More data
- Interactive Summary Health Statistics for Adults: National Health Interview Survey, 2019-2023
- Trends in Diabetes from Health, United States
- Health Conditions and Health Care Use Among American Indian and Alaska Native Adults by Tribal Land Residential Status: United States, 2019–2021 [PDF – 402 KB]
- Prevalence of Total, Diagnosed, and Undiagnosed Diabetes in Adults: United States, August 2021–August 2023
- Emergency Department Visit Rates by Adults with Diabetes: United States, 2020–2021
- Trends and Characteristics in Prepregnancy Diabetes: United States, 2016–2021 [PDF – 889 KB]
- Trends and Characteristics in Gestational Diabetes: United States, 2016-2020 [PDF – 774 KB]
- Diabetes in America, 3rd edition
- National Diabetes Statistics Report
Related Links
- Mortality Statistics
- National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey
- National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey
- National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
- National Health Interview Survey
- National Home and Hospice Care Survey
- National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
- American Diabetes Association