Type 1 diabetes in Jamaica
T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF North America and Caribbean region · Upper-Middle-Income country
An estimated 1,694 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Jamaica in 2025. Each year about 83 people are newly diagnosed and 35 people with T1D die. A further 900 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
1,694
New diagnoses this year
83
Deaths this year
35
Missing people
900
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
47.8years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Jamaica?
1,694 people in Jamaica are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 59.7 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. Jamaica has the 141st-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 5th-largest of the 19 countries in the IDF North America and Caribbean region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Jamaica, another 53 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Jamaica?
The number of people living with T1D in Jamaica went from 637 in 2000 to 1,694 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 2,068 by 2040 (+22%).
| Year | Living with T1D | New diagnoses | Deaths | Missing people |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 637 | 56 | 23 | 371 |
| 2010 | 1,084 | 83 | 28 | 559 |
| 2020 | 1,516 | 79 | 34 | 784 |
| 2025 | 1,694 | 83 | 35 | 900 |
| 2030 (projected) | 1,867 | 93 | 43 | 1,015 |
| 2040 (projected) | 2,068 | 84 | 53 | 1,283 |
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Jamaica?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Jamaica today is expected to live to 47.8, compared with 73.2 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 25.4 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 32.5 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 14.4 years.
| Level of care | Healthy years restored | Healthy years of life | Healthy years still lost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Current level of care | – | 40.7 | 32.5 |
| + Timely diagnosis for everyone | +2.7 | 43.4 | 29.8 |
| + Insulin and test strips for everyone | +8.5 | 51.9 | 21.3 |
| + Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone | +6.9 | 58.8 | 14.4 |
How does Jamaica compare?
| 2025 | Jamaica | North America and Caribbean | World |
|---|---|---|---|
| People living with T1D per 100,000 | 59.7 | 352.1 | 115.5 |
| New diagnoses per 100,000 | 2.9 | 12.4 | 6.2 |
| Missing people per 100 living with T1D | 53.1 | 26.5 | 43.0 |
| Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D | 47.8 | 66.1 | 51.3 |
| Expected age at death, 10-year-old in general population | 73.2 | 80.2 | 77.0 |
Type 1 diabetes in other North America and Caribbean countries
- United States1,512,851 living with T1D
- Canada250,506 living with T1D
- Mexico124,895 living with T1D
- Haiti4,699 living with T1D
- Trinidad and Tobago1,254 living with T1D
- Suriname537 living with T1D
- Guyana416 living with T1D
- Belize400 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.