Top 10 countries with lowest spending per person with diabetes 2024

In 2024, Bangladesh was the country with the lowest spending per patient with diabetes in the world, with average annual expenditures amounting to just 74 U.S. dollars that year. Other countries with low diabetes spending per diabetic person included Pakistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Madagascar.

Worldwide cost of diabetes

The cost of diabetes in 2024 was by far the highest in North America and the Caribbean: the average cost per diabetic patient was approximately 7,812 U.S. dollars for that region. With less than half that, Europe had the second-highest diabetes costs with roughly 2,951 U.S. dollars.

Diabetes in 2050

In 2024, it was estimated that around 589 million people worldwide had diabetes. By 2050, this number is forecast to reach almost 853 million. That would mean that in 2050 around 13 percent of the world population would be suffering from diabetes. In 2024, an estimated 11 percent of the world population had diabetes.