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The State of Community
Prevalence of Diabetes
In 2015, 30.3 million Americans, or 9.4% of the population, had diabetes
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Approximately 1.25 million American children and adults have type 1 diabetes.
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Undiagnosed: Of the 30.3 million adults with diabetes, 23.1 million were diagnosed, and 7.2 million were undiagnosed.
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Prevalence in Seniors: The percentage of Americans age 65 and older remains high, at 25.2%, or 12.0 million seniors (diagnosed and undiagnosed).
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New Cases: 1.5 million Americans are diagnosed with diabetes every year.
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Prediabetes: In 2015, 84.1 million Americans age 18 and older had prediabetes.
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Deaths: Diabetes remains the 7th leading cause of death in the United States in 2015, with 79,535 death certificates listing it as the underlying cause of death, and a total of 252,806 death certificates listing diabetesas an underlying or contributing cause of death.
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Diabetes in Youth
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About 193,000 Americans under age 20 are estimated to hav diagnose diabetes, approximately 0.24% of that population.
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In 2011—2012, the annual incidence of diagnosed diabetes in youth wasestimated at 17,900 with type 1 diabetes, 5,300 with type 2 diabetes
PERSONS WITH A DISABILITY: LABOR FORCE CHARACTERISTICS -- 2016
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In 2016, 17.9 percent of persons with a disability were employed, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. In contrast, the employment-population ratio for those without a disability was 65.3 percent. The employment-population ratio for both persons with and without a disability increased from 2015 to 2016 (by 0.4 percentage point for persons with a disability and by 0.3 percentage point for persons with no disability). The unemployment rate for persons with a disability, at 10.5 percent, was little changed from the previous year, while the rate for those without a disability declined to 4.6 percent.
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Highlights from the 2016 data:
--Nearly half of all persons with a disability were age 65 and over, about three times larger than the share of those with no disability.
--For all age groups, the employment-population ratio was much lower for persons with a disability than for those with no disability.
--For all educational attainment groups, jobless rates for persons with a disability were higher than those for persons without a disability.
--In 2016, 34 percent of workers with a disability were employed part time, compared with 18 percent for those with no disability.
--Employed persons with a disability were more likely to be self-employed than those with no disability.
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