Type 1 diabetes in Papua New Guinea
T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Western Pacific region · Lower-Middle-Income country
An estimated 351 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Papua New Guinea in 2025. Each year about 32 people are newly diagnosed and 15 people with T1D die. A further 314 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
351
New diagnoses this year
32
Deaths this year
15
Missing people
314
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
33.1years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Papua New Guinea?
351 people in Papua New Guinea 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. Papua New Guinea has the 172nd-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 19th-largest of the 33 countries in the IDF Western Pacific region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Papua New Guinea, another 89 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Papua New Guinea?
The number of people living with T1D in Papua New Guinea went from 64 in 2000 to 351 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 668 by 2040 (+90%).
| Year | Living with T1D | New diagnoses | Deaths | Missing people |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 64 | 8 | 5 | 72 |
| 2010 | 111 | 16 | 7 | 172 |
| 2020 | 262 | 27 | 11 | 258 |
| 2025 | 351 | 32 | 15 | 314 |
| 2030 (projected) | 458 | 43 | 21 | 388 |
| 2040 (projected) | 668 | 47 | 29 | 589 |
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Papua New Guinea?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Papua New Guinea today is expected to live to 33.1, compared with 69.3 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 36.2 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 40.4 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 14.8 years.
| Level of care | Healthy years restored | Healthy years of life | Healthy years still lost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Current level of care | – | 28.9 | 40.4 |
| + Timely diagnosis for everyone | +2.7 | 31.6 | 37.7 |
| + Insulin and test strips for everyone | +16.0 | 47.6 | 21.7 |
| + Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone | +6.9 | 54.5 | 14.8 |
How does Papua New Guinea compare?
| 2025 | Papua New Guinea | 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 | 89.5 | 30.7 | 43.0 |
| Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D | 33.1 | 56.4 | 51.3 |
| Expected age at death, 10-year-old in general population | 69.3 | 79.1 | 77.0 |
Type 1 diabetes in other Western Pacific countries
- Myanmar1,826 living with T1D
- Mongolia1,455 living with T1D
- Cambodia613 living with T1D
- Macao478 living with T1D
- Laos146 living with T1D
- Brunei Darussalam141 living with T1D
- Fiji125 living with T1D
- Timor-Leste52 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.