T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF North America and Caribbean region · High-Income country
An estimated 1,254 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Trinidad and Tobago in 2025. Each year about 72 people are newly diagnosed and 29 people with T1D die. A further 510 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
1,254
New diagnoses this year
72
Deaths this year
29
Missing people
510
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
50.2years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Trinidad and Tobago?
1,254 people in Trinidad and Tobago are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 83.0 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. Trinidad and Tobago has the 149th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 6th-largest of the 19 countries in the IDF North America and Caribbean region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Trinidad and Tobago, another 41 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Trinidad and Tobago?
The number of people living with T1D in Trinidad and Tobago went from 503 in 2000 to 1,254 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 1,678 by 2040 (+34%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Trinidad and Tobago, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Trinidad and Tobago over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
503
40
12
139
2010
742
39
14
259
2020
1,069
65
25
400
2025
1,254
72
29
510
2030 (projected)
1,426
87
44
646
2040 (projected)
1,678
81
51
968
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Trinidad and Tobago?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Trinidad and Tobago today is expected to live to 50.2, compared with 75.0 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 24.7 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 33.1 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 14.9 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Trinidad and Tobago, 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
–
41.9
33.1
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
–
41.9
33.1
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+10.7
52.6
22.4
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+7.4
60.0
14.9
How does Trinidad and Tobago compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Trinidad and Tobago compared with the North America and Caribbean region and the world, 2025
2025
Trinidad and Tobago
North America and Caribbean
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
83.0
352.1
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
4.8
12.4
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
40.7
26.5
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
50.2
66.1
51.3
Expected age at death, 10-year-old in general population
75.0
80.2
77.0
Type 1 diabetes in other North America and Caribbean 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.
