Diabetes and Obesity
A metabolic epidemic reshaping health systems in every income bracket.
Severity score
67.7
Critical · default weighting
Trajectory
Worsening
What this is
More than 800 million adults live with diabetes and over a billion with obesity, roughly quadruple the numbers of a generation ago. Complications include blindness, kidney failure, amputation and cardiovascular death. Food environments, urban design and marketing drive the trend faster than treatment can absorb it.
Score breakdown
Loss of life
74Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.
Lives negatively impacted
92People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.
Financial cost
72Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.
Environmental impact
6Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.
Trajectory
72Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.