T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF South and Central America region · Upper-Middle-Income country
An estimated 19,920 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Peru in 2025. Each year about 1,043 people are newly diagnosed and 335 people with T1D die. A further 9,820 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
19,920
New diagnoses this year
1,043
Deaths this year
335
Missing people
9,820
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
51.4years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Peru?
19,920 people in Peru are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 57.6 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. Peru has the 65th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 5th-largest of the 20 countries in the IDF South and Central America region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Peru, another 49 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Peru?
The number of people living with T1D in Peru went from 6,379 in 2000 to 19,920 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 30,215 by 2040 (+52%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Peru, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Peru over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
6,379
586
194
3,857
2010
10,928
868
328
5,870
2020
16,777
922
373
8,473
2025
19,920
1,043
335
9,820
2030 (projected)
23,453
1,240
446
11,281
2040 (projected)
30,215
1,270
572
14,935
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Peru?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Peru today is expected to live to 51.4, compared with 79.2 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 27.8 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 37.2 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 15.4 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Peru, 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
–
42.0
37.2
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
+2.8
44.8
34.4
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+11.0
55.8
23.4
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+8.0
63.8
15.4
How does Peru compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Peru compared with the South and Central America region and the world, 2025
2025
Peru
South and Central America
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
57.6
160.6
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
3.0
9.0
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
49.3
45.8
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
51.4
52.4
51.3
Expected age at death, 10-year-old in general population
79.2
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.
