T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF South and Central America region · Upper-Middle-Income country
An estimated 15,774 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Guatemala in 2025. Each year about 757 people are newly diagnosed and 339 people with T1D die. A further 9,502 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
15,774
New diagnoses this year
757
Deaths this year
339
Missing people
9,502
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
44.5years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Guatemala?
15,774 people in Guatemala are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 84.4 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. Guatemala has the 74th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 7th-largest of the 20 countries in the IDF South and Central America region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Guatemala, another 60 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Guatemala?
The number of people living with T1D in Guatemala went from 4,319 in 2000 to 15,774 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 22,241 by 2040 (+41%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Guatemala, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Guatemala over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
4,319
492
207
3,486
2010
10,773
952
311
5,844
2020
14,079
643
337
8,137
2025
15,774
757
339
9,502
2030 (projected)
17,964
965
462
11,103
2040 (projected)
22,241
990
573
15,214
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Guatemala?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Guatemala today is expected to live to 44.5, compared with 74.5 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 30.1 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 37.0 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 15.3 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Guatemala, 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
–
37.5
37.0
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
+2.4
39.9
34.6
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+11.7
51.6
22.9
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+7.6
59.2
15.3
How does Guatemala compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Guatemala compared with the South and Central America region and the world, 2025
2025
Guatemala
South and Central America
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
84.4
160.6
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
4.0
9.0
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
60.2
45.8
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
44.5
52.4
51.3
Expected age at death, 10-year-old in general population
74.5
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.
