📉 Diabetes-related deaths in the US drop to lowest levels in years

• New preliminary figures from the CDC show that diabetes-related deaths in the US have decreased to 26.4 deaths per 100,000 people according to data from the third quarter of 2024.
• This decrease reverses the concerning increase observed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• The number of reported diabetes deaths was 94,294 during 2023, a decrease compared to the pandemic peak of 103,294 deaths during 2021.

Downward trend after pandemic peak

According to new preliminary data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the number of diabetes-related deaths in the US has fallen to the lowest levels in several years. Statistics from the third quarter of 2024 show 26.4 deaths per 100,000 people.

This decrease reverses the concerning increase observed during the COVID-19 pandemic, when deaths reached their highest level in 2021 with 31.1 deaths per 100,000 people. During that year, diabetes ranked as the eighth most common cause of death in the US.

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