The number of people with diabetes in China is estimated to be 10 percent of the country’s population. More notably, many teenagers and children have been diagnosed with the disease in recent years.
About 129.8 million Chinese citizens live with diabetes—70.4 million males and 59.4 million females. The prevalence of diabetes and prediabetes in adults is 12.8 percent and 35.2 percent respectively. Approximately 834,000 people die from complications caused by diabetes in China every year, according to China’s state-run media Xinhua News.
