T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF North America and Caribbean region · Upper-Middle-Income country
An estimated 124,895 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Mexico in 2025. Each year about 4,721 people are newly diagnosed and 2,165 people with T1D die. A further 67,277 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
124,895
New diagnoses this year
4,721
Deaths this year
2,165
Missing people
67,277
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
50.4years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Mexico?
124,895 people in Mexico are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 94.7 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. Mexico has the 19th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 3rd-largest of the 19 countries in the IDF North America and Caribbean region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Mexico, another 54 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Mexico?
The number of people living with T1D in Mexico went from 45,972 in 2000 to 124,895 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 159,684 by 2040 (+28%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Mexico, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Mexico over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
45,972
3,935
1,522
26,868
2010
94,532
6,600
2,113
43,436
2020
116,245
4,169
2,640
58,811
2025
124,895
4,721
2,165
67,277
2030 (projected)
137,010
5,852
2,750
75,873
2040 (projected)
159,684
5,695
3,165
95,329
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Mexico?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Mexico today is expected to live to 50.4, compared with 76.4 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 26.0 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 33.6 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 15.5 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Mexico, 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
–
42.8
33.6
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
+2.9
45.7
30.8
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+7.4
53.1
23.3
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+7.8
60.9
15.5
How does Mexico compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Mexico compared with the North America and Caribbean region and the world, 2025
2025
Mexico
North America and Caribbean
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
94.7
352.1
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
3.6
12.4
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
53.9
26.5
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
50.4
66.1
51.3
Expected age at death, 10-year-old in general population
76.4
80.2
77.0
Type 1 diabetes in other North America and Caribbean 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.
