Type 1 diabetes in Guyana
T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF North America and Caribbean region · High-Income country
An estimated 416 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Guyana in 2025. Each year about 26 people are newly diagnosed and 10 people with T1D die. A further 189 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
416
New diagnoses this year
26
Deaths this year
10
Missing people
189
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
45.0years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Guyana?
416 people in Guyana are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 49.8 per 100,000 people. That is lower than the North America and Caribbean average of 352.1 per 100,000 and lower than the global average of 115.5. Guyana has the 166th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 8th-largest of the 19 countries in the IDF North America and Caribbean region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Guyana, another 45 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Guyana?
The number of people living with T1D in Guyana went from 170 in 2000 to 416 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 581 by 2040 (+40%).
| Year | Living with T1D | New diagnoses | Deaths | Missing people |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 170 | 17 | 4 | 62 |
| 2010 | 269 | 24 | 7 | 93 |
| 2020 | 368 | 23 | 10 | 153 |
| 2025 | 416 | 26 | 10 | 189 |
| 2030 (projected) | 474 | 31 | 14 | 229 |
| 2040 (projected) | 581 | 31 | 17 | 334 |
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Guyana?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Guyana today is expected to live to 45.0, compared with 72.1 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 27.0 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 33.5 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 15.4 years.
| Level of care | Healthy years restored | Healthy years of life | Healthy years still lost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Current level of care | – | 38.5 | 33.5 |
| + Timely diagnosis for everyone | – | 38.5 | 33.6 |
| + Insulin and test strips for everyone | +11.1 | 49.6 | 22.4 |
| + Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone | +7.1 | 56.7 | 15.4 |
How does Guyana compare?
| 2025 | Guyana | North America and Caribbean | World |
|---|---|---|---|
| People living with T1D per 100,000 | 49.8 | 352.1 | 115.5 |
| New diagnoses per 100,000 | 3.1 | 12.4 | 6.2 |
| Missing people per 100 living with T1D | 45.4 | 26.5 | 43.0 |
| Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D | 45.0 | 66.1 | 51.3 |
| Expected age at death, 10-year-old in general population | 72.1 | 80.2 | 77.0 |
Type 1 diabetes in other North America and Caribbean countries
- Haiti4,699 living with T1D
- Jamaica1,694 living with T1D
- Trinidad and Tobago1,254 living with T1D
- Suriname537 living with T1D
- Belize400 living with T1D
- Bahamas353 living with T1D
- Martinique285 living with T1D
- Barbados236 living with T1D
More data
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.