Over one billion people across the world are expected to have diabetes by 2050, according to a paper published in The Lancet.
The paper found that an estimated 96% of diabetics had Type 2 Diabetes, linked to a “rise in obesity.”
More than 27,000 sources were used for the estimation.
The estimated increase would result in 10% of the world population having diabetes in the next quarter of a century.
As of 2021, 6% of the world’s population has diabetes.
“The new study presents a sobering fact that global figures for Type 2 diabetes will increase,” said a diabetes expert at Warwick University, Stephen Lawrence.
“These new figures surpass many of the predictions we had before,” he added.
Reporting from The National Pulse:
More than 37 million Americans – slightly more than 10 percent – already have diabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In Britain, the prevalence of the disease has already increased from one in 100 to one in 12 people over the last 35 years.
