T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF South and Central America region · Upper-Middle-Income country
An estimated 16,878 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Ecuador in 2025. Each year about 1,032 people are newly diagnosed and 253 people with T1D die. A further 7,142 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
16,878
New diagnoses this year
1,032
Deaths this year
253
Missing people
7,142
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
53.0years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Ecuador?
16,878 people in Ecuador are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 92.3 per 100,000 people. That is lower than the South and Central America average of 160.6 per 100,000 and lower than the global average of 115.5. Ecuador has the 71st-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 6th-largest of the 20 countries in the IDF South and Central America region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Ecuador, another 42 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Ecuador?
The number of people living with T1D in Ecuador went from 4,127 in 2000 to 16,878 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 29,515 by 2040 (+75%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Ecuador, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Ecuador over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
4,127
384
160
3,344
2010
7,538
607
177
4,690
2020
13,422
891
301
6,289
2025
16,878
1,032
253
7,142
2030 (projected)
21,027
1,291
352
8,227
2040 (projected)
29,515
1,309
478
11,243
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Ecuador?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Ecuador today is expected to live to 53.0, compared with 78.8 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 25.8 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 35.3 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 15.0 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Ecuador, 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
–
43.5
35.3
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
+2.9
46.4
32.3
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+9.6
56.0
22.8
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+7.8
63.8
15.0
How does Ecuador compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Ecuador compared with the South and Central America region and the world, 2025
2025
Ecuador
South and Central America
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
92.3
160.6
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
5.6
9.0
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
42.3
45.8
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
53.0
52.4
51.3
Expected age at death, 10-year-old in general population
78.8
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.
