For example, in the 1999–2000 AusDiab Study, half of all diabetes was undiagnosed (Dunstan et al. However, Australian studies have shown that many people are living with undiagnosed type 2 diabetes.
This is because they are based on people who have received a formal medical diagnosis of diabetes. The prevalence rates presented above are likely to underestimate the true prevalence of diabetes in the Australian population. The diabetes rate peaked in 2016 and remained stable between 20 (Figure 1). Diabetes was more common in males (4.8%) than females (3.8%), after controlling for age.Īfter accounting for differences in the age structure of the population, the age-standardised prevalence rate of diabetes on the linked NDSS and APEG data increased from 2.4% in 2000 to 4.3% in 2020. In 2020, the prevalence of diabetes increased with age with almost 1 in 5 Australians aged 80–84 living with diabetes – almost 30 times as high as for those aged under 40 (0.7%). This includes people with type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes and other diabetes, but excludes gestational diabetes. In 2020, an estimated 1 in 20 (almost 1.3 million) Australians were living with diabetes (prevalence) and were registered with the National Diabetes Services Scheme (NDSS) and Australasian Paediatric Endocrine Group (APEG) state-based registers. See What is diabetes? for more information.
Insulin replacement therapy is required by all people with type 1 diabetes, as well as by a proportion of people with other forms of diabetes if their condition worsens over time. Treatment aims to maintain healthy blood glucose levels to prevent both short- and long-term complications, such as cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, blindness and lower limb amputation. The main types of diabetes are type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, gestational diabetes and other diabetes. It is caused by the inability to produce insulin (a hormone made by the pancreas to control blood glucose levels) or to use insulin effectively, or both. Diabetes is a chronic condition marked by high levels of glucose (sugar) in the blood.
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