T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Western Pacific region · Lower-Middle-Income country
An estimated 31,888 people are living with type 1 diabetes in the Philippines in 2025. Each year about 2,902 people are newly diagnosed and 1,062 people with T1D die. A further 12,530 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
31,888
New diagnoses this year
2,902
Deaths this year
1,062
Missing people
12,530
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
37.3years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in the Philippines?
31,888 people in the Philippines are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 27.3 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. The Philippines has the 42nd-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 5th-largest of the 33 countries in the IDF Western Pacific region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in the Philippines, another 39 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in the Philippines?
The number of people living with T1D in the Philippines went from 928 in 2000 to 31,888 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 58,260 by 2040 (+83%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in the Philippines, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in the Philippines over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
928
146
61
755
2010
5,671
1,266
335
2,301
2020
22,173
2,592
794
7,910
2025
31,888
2,902
1,062
12,530
2030 (projected)
42,063
3,624
1,595
18,815
2040 (projected)
58,260
3,493
2,240
36,402
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in the Philippines?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in the Philippines today is expected to live to 37.3, compared with 72.1 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 34.8 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 40.6 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 14.8 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in the Philippines, 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
–
31.4
40.6
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
+3.1
34.5
37.5
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+15.9
50.4
21.7
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+6.9
57.3
14.8
How does the Philippines compare?
Type 1 diabetes in the Philippines compared with the Western Pacific region and the world, 2025
2025
Philippines
Western Pacific
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
27.3
43.1
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
2.5
2.4
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
39.3
30.7
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
37.3
56.4
51.3
Expected age at death, 10-year-old in general population
72.1
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.
