T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF South and Central America region · Upper-Middle-Income country
An estimated 90,932 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Argentina in 2025. Each year about 5,441 people are newly diagnosed and 1,409 people with T1D die. A further 36,288 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
90,932
New diagnoses this year
5,441
Deaths this year
1,409
Missing people
36,288
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
54.3years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Argentina?
90,932 people in Argentina are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 198.4 per 100,000 people. That is higher than the South and Central America average of 160.6 per 100,000 and higher than the global average of 115.5. Argentina has the 23rd-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 2nd-largest of the 20 countries in the IDF South and Central America region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Argentina, another 40 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Argentina?
The number of people living with T1D in Argentina went from 25,975 in 2000 to 90,932 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 154,481 by 2040 (+70%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Argentina, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Argentina over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
25,975
2,002
841
20,723
2010
42,120
3,014
1,010
25,760
2020
70,580
5,344
1,375
32,060
2025
90,932
5,441
1,409
36,288
2030 (projected)
112,736
7,047
1,978
41,569
2040 (projected)
154,481
6,833
2,636
56,575
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Argentina?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Argentina today is expected to live to 54.3, compared with 78.5 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 24.2 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 33.6 years of healthy life at today's level of care. If everyone received timely diagnosis, insulin and test strips, and insulin pumps and CGMs, that loss would fall to 14.7 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Argentina, as each level of care is added in turn
Level of care
Healthy years restored
Healthy years of life
Healthy years still lost
Current level of care
–
44.9
33.6
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
+3.1
48.0
30.6
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+8.3
56.3
22.2
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+7.5
63.8
14.7
How does Argentina compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Argentina compared with the South and Central America region and the world, 2025
2025
Argentina
South and Central America
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
198.4
160.6
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
11.9
9.0
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
39.9
45.8
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
54.3
52.4
51.3
Expected age at death, 10-year-old in general population
78.5
77.7
77.0
Type 1 diabetes in other South and Central America countries
All figures are T1D Index version 3.0 estimates for all ages. Missing people are those who would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes. Expected age at death is for a 10-year-old. See Data & Methods for how the estimates are made and the peer-reviewed publications behind them.
