T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF North America and Caribbean region · High-Income country
An estimated 250,506 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Canada in 2025. Each year about 8,670 people are newly diagnosed and 2,206 people with T1D die. A further 49,236 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
250,506
New diagnoses this year
8,670
Deaths this year
2,206
Missing people
49,236
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
70.5years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Canada?
250,506 people in Canada are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 624.5 per 100,000 people. That is higher than the North America and Caribbean average of 352.1 per 100,000 and higher than the global average of 115.5. Canada has the 8th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 2nd-largest of the 19 countries in the IDF North America and Caribbean region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Canada, another 20 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Canada?
The number of people living with T1D in Canada went from 110,821 in 2000 to 250,506 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 354,532 by 2040 (+42%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Canada, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Canada over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
110,821
4,648
1,197
30,748
2010
155,842
6,318
1,450
35,858
2020
215,558
7,906
2,134
43,637
2025
250,506
8,670
2,206
49,236
2030 (projected)
285,840
10,261
3,162
56,237
2040 (projected)
354,532
10,414
3,761
73,577
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Canada?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Canada today is expected to live to 70.5, compared with 83.3 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 12.8 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 24.3 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 14.4 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Canada, 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
–
59.0
24.3
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
–
59.0
24.3
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+2.2
61.2
22.1
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+7.7
68.9
14.4
How does Canada compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Canada compared with the North America and Caribbean region and the world, 2025
2025
Canada
North America and Caribbean
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
624.5
352.1
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
21.6
12.4
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
19.7
26.5
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
70.5
66.1
51.3
Expected age at death, 10-year-old in general population
83.3
80.2
77.0
Type 1 diabetes in other North America and Caribbean 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.
