A new study in Nature Communications has warned that diabetes could wipe more than 5.177 trillion international dollars from global economic output between 2021 and 2050 across 190 countries and territories, turning a chronic health condition into a sprawling long term threat to growth, work and public finances.
The warning matters because the projected hit is not confined to hospitals or household budgets. It reaches into labour markets, lost productivity and the slow drag that disability and illness can impose on entire economies.
