T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF South and Central America region · Upper-Middle-Income country
An estimated 517,290 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Brazil in 2025. Each year about 28,927 people are newly diagnosed and 9,271 people with T1D die. A further 246,389 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
517,290
New diagnoses this year
28,927
Deaths this year
9,271
Missing people
246,389
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
51.5years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Brazil?
517,290 people in Brazil are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 243.1 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. Brazil has the 4th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the largest of the 20 countries in the IDF South and Central America region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Brazil, another 48 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Brazil?
The number of people living with T1D in Brazil went from 167,679 in 2000 to 517,290 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 774,460 by 2040 (+50%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Brazil, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Brazil over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
167,679
15,035
5,400
125,073
2010
277,918
17,452
5,982
164,909
2020
433,217
25,656
8,647
214,989
2025
517,290
28,927
9,271
246,389
2030 (projected)
610,075
34,283
12,764
283,970
2040 (projected)
774,460
32,955
15,903
380,329
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Brazil?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Brazil today is expected to live to 51.5, compared with 77.3 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 25.8 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 34.1 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 15.2 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Brazil, 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
–
43.2
34.1
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
+2.9
46.1
31.2
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+8.1
54.2
23.1
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+7.9
62.1
15.2
How does Brazil compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Brazil compared with the South and Central America region and the world, 2025
2025
Brazil
South and Central America
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
243.1
160.6
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
13.6
9.0
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
47.6
45.8
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
51.5
52.4
51.3
Expected age at death, 10-year-old in general population
77.3
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.
