T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF South and Central America region · High-Income country
An estimated 4,100 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Panama in 2025. Each year about 235 people are newly diagnosed and 49 people with T1D die. A further 922 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
4,100
New diagnoses this year
235
Deaths this year
49
Missing people
922
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
59.1years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Panama?
4,100 people in Panama are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 89.7 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. Panama has the 120th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 16th-largest of the 20 countries in the IDF South and Central America region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Panama, another 22 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Panama?
The number of people living with T1D in Panama went from 1,123 in 2000 to 4,100 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 7,046 by 2040 (+72%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Panama, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Panama over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
1,123
95
18
258
2010
1,985
110
28
458
2020
3,259
204
48
728
2025
4,100
235
49
922
2030 (projected)
5,075
300
76
1,174
2040 (projected)
7,046
313
103
1,884
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Panama?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Panama today is expected to live to 59.1, compared with 81.1 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 22.0 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 33.7 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 Panama, 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
–
47.3
33.7
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
–
47.3
33.8
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+10.8
58.1
23.0
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+8.0
66.1
15.0
How does Panama compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Panama compared with the South and Central America region and the world, 2025
2025
Panama
South and Central America
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
89.7
160.6
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
5.2
9.0
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
22.5
45.8
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
59.1
52.4
51.3
Expected age at death, 10-year-old in general population
81.1
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.
