T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Western Pacific region · Lower-Middle-Income country
An estimated 1,826 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Myanmar in 2025. Each year about 179 people are newly diagnosed and 91 people with T1D die. A further 1,820 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
1,826
New diagnoses this year
179
Deaths this year
91
Missing people
1,820
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
32.3years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Myanmar?
1,826 people in Myanmar are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 3.3 per 100,000 people. That is lower than the Western Pacific average of 43.1 per 100,000 and lower than the global average of 115.5. Myanmar has the 138th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 15th-largest of the 33 countries in the IDF Western Pacific region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Myanmar, another 100 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Myanmar?
The number of people living with T1D in Myanmar went from 367 in 2000 to 1,826 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 3,227 by 2040 (+77%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Myanmar, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Myanmar over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
367
56
41
659
2010
665
84
49
1,013
2020
1,396
177
75
1,468
2025
1,826
179
91
1,820
2030 (projected)
2,334
244
130
2,255
2040 (projected)
3,227
243
165
3,391
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Myanmar?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Myanmar today is expected to live to 32.3, compared with 70.4 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 38.1 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 42.4 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 Myanmar, 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
–
28.0
42.4
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
+2.6
30.6
39.8
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+17.8
48.4
22.0
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+7.0
55.4
15.0
How does Myanmar compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Myanmar compared with the Western Pacific region and the world, 2025
2025
Myanmar
Western Pacific
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
3.3
43.1
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
0.3
2.4
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
99.7
30.7
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
32.3
56.4
51.3
Expected age at death, 10-year-old in general population
70.4
79.1
77.0
Type 1 diabetes in other Western Pacific 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.
