Americans might get a hard time for their high-sugar diets, but the US isn’t even in the top 50 worst countries for diabetes, data shows.
And despite Britons having a notoriously sweet tooth, the UK doesn’t rank among the worst 100 countries when it comes to rates of the disease.
Figures compiled by Our World In Data, using data from the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), analyzed the percentage of diabetic people between ages 20 and 79 in 211 countries.