T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF South and Central America region · High-Income country
An estimated 42,558 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Chile in 2025. Each year about 2,272 people are newly diagnosed and 352 people with T1D die. A further 7,687 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
42,558
New diagnoses this year
2,272
Deaths this year
352
Missing people
7,687
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
67.0years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Chile?
42,558 people in Chile are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 214.4 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. Chile has the 34th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 4th-largest of the 20 countries in the IDF South and Central America region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Chile, another 18 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Chile?
The number of people living with T1D in Chile went from 11,695 in 2000 to 42,558 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 74,164 by 2040 (+74%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Chile, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Chile over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
11,695
834
146
4,205
2010
19,144
1,223
234
5,350
2020
33,077
2,169
307
6,754
2025
42,558
2,272
352
7,687
2030 (projected)
53,004
2,982
475
8,913
2040 (projected)
74,164
2,805
698
12,539
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Chile?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Chile today is expected to live to 67.0, compared with 82.1 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 15.1 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 26.2 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 14.6 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Chile, 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
–
55.9
26.2
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
–
55.9
26.2
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+3.8
59.7
22.4
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+7.8
67.5
14.6
How does Chile compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Chile compared with the South and Central America region and the world, 2025
2025
Chile
South and Central America
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
214.4
160.6
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
11.4
9.0
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
18.1
45.8
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
67.0
52.4
51.3
Expected age at death, 10-year-old in general population
82.1
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.
