Abstract

Background: The seventy-five years of the existence of the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and twenty-five years after she published the first edition of Diabetes Atlas in 2000, has witnessed tremendous benefits to the whole global international community. With the World Health Organization (WHO), both international institutions have advanced advocacy and policy implementation on Diabetes Mellitus (DM) in all IDF regions and most countries of the world. Objective: The aim of this review is to use the current edition (11th Edition 2025) of the IDF Diabetes Atlas to highlight some regional peculiarities of diabetes mellitus in the seven IDF regions. The enormous economic impact of diabetes mellitus in all the regions is stressed. The mortality trends in 2024 are expressed in the tables. Method: A detailed study of the IDF, 11th edition 2025 Diabetes Atlas is done as a follow-up to all the previous ten editions since 2000. The World Health Organization (WHO), classification of diabetes mellitus 2019 also provided clarity on many aspects of Diabetes Mellitus. Conclusion: The growing prevalence of diabetes mellitus since the turn of the century globally is clearly established. The classification of diabetes mellitus has been in a state of flux. However, the knowledge gap has been significantly narrowed. IDF diabetes atlas provides easy reference and summative information on national data on diabetes mellitus of most countries of the world.

Keywords: IDF, WHO, Diabetes atlas, Geography, Regions and countries