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1 in 17

Australian adults (6%)—approximately 1.2 million people in 2014–15—had diabetes, based on self-reported data.

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28,800

people started using insulin in 2015 to treat their diabetes.

1 million

hospitalisations were associated with diabetes (principal and/or additional diagnosis) in 2014–15, that is 10% of all hospitalisations in Australia.

1 in 10

Australians deaths had diabetes as an underlying and/or associated cause of death, that is 15,740 deaths in 2014.

4x

among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people compared with non-Indigenous Australians for diabetes death rates and hospitalisation rates for type 2 diabetes.

2x

in Remote and very remote areas compared with Major Cities for diabetes death rates and hospitalisation rates for type 2 diabetes.

2x

in the lowest socioeconomic group compared with the highest for diabetes death rates and hospitalisation rates for type 2 diabetes.


This information was last updated in December 2016.