Fourteen percent of the world's people -- more than 800 million -- now have diabetes, a doubling of the global rate for the blood sugar disease since 1990, new statistics show.

Diabetes rates have doubled globally in the last three decades, a new study suggests, here’s what to know about the situation in Europe. View on euronews

More than half of the estimated 800 million adults who have diabetes are not receiving treatment for their condition, research shows. The World Health Organisation had previously estimated that about 422 million people have diabetes,