Type 1 diabetes in Suriname
T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF North America and Caribbean region · Upper-Middle-Income country
An estimated 537 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Suriname in 2025. Each year about 36 people are newly diagnosed and 12 people with T1D die. A further 288 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
537
New diagnoses this year
36
Deaths this year
12
Missing people
288
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
46.9years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Suriname?
537 people in Suriname are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 83.9 per 100,000 people. That is lower than the North America and Caribbean average of 352.1 per 100,000 and lower than the global average of 115.5. Suriname has the 160th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 7th-largest of the 19 countries in the IDF North America and Caribbean region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Suriname, another 54 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Suriname?
The number of people living with T1D in Suriname went from 155 in 2000 to 537 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 907 by 2040 (+69%).
| Year | Living with T1D | New diagnoses | Deaths | Missing people |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 155 | 14 | 6 | 132 |
| 2010 | 262 | 22 | 8 | 189 |
| 2020 | 431 | 31 | 10 | 251 |
| 2025 | 537 | 36 | 12 | 288 |
| 2030 (projected) | 664 | 46 | 16 | 336 |
| 2040 (projected) | 907 | 47 | 22 | 468 |
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Suriname?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Suriname today is expected to live to 46.9, compared with 74.9 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 28.0 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 35.2 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.
| Level of care | Healthy years restored | Healthy years of life | Healthy years still lost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Current level of care | – | 39.6 | 35.2 |
| + Timely diagnosis for everyone | +2.6 | 42.2 | 32.7 |
| + Insulin and test strips for everyone | +9.8 | 52.0 | 22.9 |
| + Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone | +7.5 | 59.5 | 15.4 |
How does Suriname compare?
| 2025 | Suriname | North America and Caribbean | World |
|---|---|---|---|
| People living with T1D per 100,000 | 83.9 | 352.1 | 115.5 |
| New diagnoses per 100,000 | 5.6 | 12.4 | 6.2 |
| Missing people per 100 living with T1D | 53.6 | 26.5 | 43.0 |
| Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D | 46.9 | 66.1 | 51.3 |
| Expected age at death, 10-year-old in general population | 74.9 | 80.2 | 77.0 |
Type 1 diabetes in other North America and Caribbean countries
- Mexico124,895 living with T1D
- Haiti4,699 living with T1D
- Jamaica1,694 living with T1D
- Trinidad and Tobago1,254 living with T1D
- Guyana416 living with T1D
- Belize400 living with T1D
- Bahamas353 living with T1D
- Martinique285 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.