Diabetes on the Runway

Statistics about Diabetes Overall numbers
- 2 million Americans have type 1 diabetes, including about 304,000 children and adolescents
- Prevalence: In 2021, 38.4 million Americans, or 11.6% of the population have diabetes.
- New cases: 1.2 million Americans are diagnosed every year.
- Prediabetes: In 2021, 97.6 million Americans aged 18 and older had prediabetes
- Prevalence in seniors: The percentage of Americans aged 65 and older remains high, at 29.2 or 16.5 million seniors (diagnosed and undiagnosed).
- Diagnosed and undiagnosed: Of the 38.4 million adults with diabetes, 29.7 million were diagnosed and 8.7 million were undiagnosed.

Diabetes in youth
- In 2017-2018 the annual incidence of diagnosed diabetes in youth was estimated at 18,200 with type 1 diabetes, and 5,300 with type 2 diabetes.
- About 352,000 Americans under age 20 are estimated to have diagnosed diabetes, approximately 0.35% of that population.

Diabetes by race/ ethnicity The rates of diagnosed diabetes in adults by race/ethnic background are:
- 13.6 % of American Indians/ Alaskan Native adults.
- 12.1% of non-Hispanic Black adults
- 11.7% of Hispanic adults
- 9.1% of Asian American adults
- 6.9% of non-Hispanic White adults

The breakdown among Hispanic adults:
- 13.3% Puerto Rican
- 11.1% Mexican or Mexican American
- 9.4% Dominican
- 9.0% Cuban
- Central American, South American, and other Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish adults had prevalences from 5.0%-7.3% The breakdown among Asian American adults:
- 12.2% of Filipino
- 10.8% of Asian Indian
- Chinese, Japanese, Koreon, and Vietnamese prevalences range from 6.1-7.1%
- 8.9% of other Asian American groups \

Deaths
Diabetes was the eighth leading causes of death in the United States in 2021 based on the 103,294 death certificates in which diabetes was listed as the underlying cause of death. In 2021, diabetes was mentioned as a cause of death in a total of 399,401 certificates.