Toronto, Oct 20 (PTI) India leads the world in the number of people suffering from diabetes and by 2030, nearly 9 per cent of the country's population is likely to be affected from the disease, the International Diabetic Federation (IDF) has warned.
About 50.8 million people are now suffering from the looming epidemic of diabetes, followed by China with 43.2 million, a report released at the 20th annual World Diabetes Congress of IDF opened yesterday in the Canadian city of Montreal said.
The US has 26.8 million people suffering from the disease, while it is 9.6 million in Russia, 7.6 million in Brazil and 7.5 million in Germany.
Pakistan is the third Asian country having 7.1 million diabetic patients while Japan has 7.1 million and Indonesia has 7 million, according to the latest IDF data.
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