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. 2025 May 1;49(3):524. doi: 10.4093/dmj.2024.0818.c1

Diabetes Fact Sheets in Korea 2024

Se Eun Park 1,*, Seung-Hyun Ko 2,*, Ji Yoon Kim 3, Kyuho Kim 2, Joon Ho Moon 4, Nam Hoon Kim 5, Kyung Do Han 6, Sung Hee Choi 4, Bong Soo Cha 7
PMCID: PMC12086556  PMID: 40367996

Diabetes Metab J 2025;49:24-33. https://doi.org/10.4093/dmj.2024.0818

Table 1 in this manuscript contains an error in the age group categories. A corrected version of Table 1 is attached. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Table 1.

Estimated prevalence of diabetes mellitus and prediabetes, KNHANES 2021 to 2022

Variable Diabetes
Prediabetes
Total Men Women Total Men Women
By age group, yr
 ≥19 13.1 (5,405,519) 15.2 (3,130,510) 11.0 (2,275,009) 36.1 (14,949,509) 38.3 (7,896,298) 34.0 (7,053,211)
 ≥30 15.5 (5,333,837) 18.1 (3,072,080) 13.0 (2,261,758) 41.1 (14,099,002) 43.8 (7,409,019) 38.5 (6,689,984)
 ≥65 29.3 (2,340,268) 30.4 (1,062,135) 28.5 (1,278,133) 47.7 (3,804,141) 45.6 (1,595,558) 49.3 (2,208,584)
 30–39 3.3 (213,466) 4.0 (139,258) 2.4 (74,208) 29.3 (1,902,723) 36.6 (1,263,531) 21.0 (639,192)
 40–49 8.4 (659,606) 11.6 (465,533) 5.1 (194,074) 36.0 (2,824,476) 42.8 (1,715,741) 28.9 (1,108,735)
 50–59 16.7 (1,355,027) 22.9 (923,534) 10.6 (431,492) 44.6 (3,614,117) 45.8 (1,850,896) 43.4 (1,763,221)
 60–69 22.7 (1,514,503) 27.0 (883,499) 18.6 (631,004) 49.6 (3,307,805) 48.6 (1,593,147) 50.5 (1,714,659)
 ≥70 30.6 (1,591,235) 30.7 (660,255) 30.5 (930,980) 47.1 (2,449,881) 45.8 (985,704) 48.0 (1,464,177)

Values are presented as percentage (number).

KNHANES, Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.


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