This page provides data points and curated searches from OMH’s Knowledge Center library catalog related to diabetes within minority and tribal populations in the United States and its territories. The number of catalog records for each topic reflect the search results at the time of this page’s latest update.
American Indian/Alaska Native
In 2024, American Indian/Alaska Native adults were diagnosed with diabetes 36% more often than the total population.1 In 2021, non-Hispanic American Indians/Alaska Natives died from diabetes 66% more often than the total population.2
For additional data on diabetes and American Indians/Alaska Natives, please visit our Population Profiles.
Asian American
In 2024, Asian American adults were diagnosed with diabetes 6% more often than adults of the total population.3 From 2019-2021, among Asian subgroups,4 Asian Indian and Filipino adults were diagnosed with diabetes more often than adults of the total population, 21% and 37% respectively. Korean adults were diagnosed with diabetes 31% less often than adults of the total population. Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese adults also had lower rates of being diagnosed with diabetes than adults of the total population. In 2022, non-Hispanic Asian American men and women died from diabetes less often than the total population, 40% and 37% respectively.5
For additional data on diabetes and Asian Americans, please visit our Population Profiles.
Black/African American
In 2024, non-Hispanic Black or African American adults were diagnosed with diabetes 24% more frequently than adult of the total population.6 In 2021, non-Hispanic Black or African Americans were diagnosed with end stage renal disease due to diabetes 2.19 times more often than the total population.7 In 2022, non-Hispanic Black or African Americans died from diabetes at a rate that was 40% higher than the total population.8
For additional data on diabetes and Black or African Americans, please visit our Population Profiles.
Hispanic/Latino
In 2022, Hispanic/Latino Americans died from diabetes at a rate that was 36% below the total population.9 In 2022, Hispanic/Latino adults experienced 28% more instances of visual impairments than the total population.10 In 2024, Hispanic/Latino adults were diagnosed with diabetes at a rate that was 13% higher than the total adult population.11
For additional data on diabetes and Hispanic Americans, please visit our Population Profiles.
Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander
National data for this population is limited. From 2022-2024, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander adults were diagnosed with diabetes at the same rate as adults from the total population.12 In 2022, non-Hispanic Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders died from diabetes at a rate 57% higher than the total population.13 In 2014, American Samoans had the highest rate of diagnosed diabetes among surveyed Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander sub-populations. They were diagnosed with diabetes at a rate that was 31% higher than all Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander adults.14
For additional data on diabetes and Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders, please visit our Population Profiles.
1 CDC. National Center for Health Statistics. Interactive Summary Health Statistics for Adults. Percentage of diagnosed diabetes for adults aged 18 and over, United States, 2024. (Back)
2 CDC, 2024. Deaths: Final Data for 2021. National Vital Statistics Report, Vol. 73, No. 8. Table 10. (Back)
3 CDC. National Center for Health Statistics. Interactive Summary Health Statistics for Adults. Percentage of diagnosed diabetes for adults aged 18 and over, United States, 2024. (Back)
4 CDC, 2022. National Diabetes Statistics Report, 2021. Table 2. (Back)
5 CDC, 2024. Deaths: Final Data for 2021. National Vital Statistics Report, Vol. 73, No. 8. Table 10. (Back)
6 CDC. National Center for Health Statistics. Interactive Summary Health Statistics for Adults. Percentage of diagnosed diabetes for adults ages 18 and over, United States, 2024. (Back)
7 CDC. Diabetes Related ESRD Incidence Surveillance - United States Diabetes Surveillance System. (Back)
8 CDC, 2025. Deaths: Final Data for 2022. National Vital Statistics Report, Vol. 74, No. 4. Table 10. (Back)
9 CDC, 2025. Deaths: Final Data for 2022. National Vital Statistics Report, Vol. 74, No. 4. Table 10. (Back)
10 CDC. National Diabetes Surveillance System. https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/diabetes/diabetesatlas-surveillance.html (Back)
11 CDC. Interactive Summary Health Statistics for Adults. Percentage of diagnosed diabetes for adults aged 18 and over, United States, 2024. (Back)
12 CDC. National Center for Health Statistics. Interactive Summary Health Statistics for Adults by Detailed Race and Ethnicity. Percentage of diagnosed diabetes for adults aged 18 and over, United States, 2022–2024. (Back)
13 CDC. National Center for Health Statistics. Interactive Summary Health Statistics for Adults by Detailed Race and Ethnicity. Percentage of diagnosed diabetes for adults aged 18 and over, United States, 2022–2024. (Back)
14 CDC, 2025. Deaths: Final Data for 2022. National Vital Statistics Report, Vol. 74, No. 4. Table 10. (Back)
Date Last Reviewed: September 2025