T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF North America and Caribbean region · High-Income country
An estimated 183 people are living with type 1 diabetes in the U.S. Virgin Islands in 2025. Each year about 12 people are newly diagnosed and 4 people with T1D die. A further 56 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
183
New diagnoses this year
12
Deaths this year
4
Missing people
56
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
56.0years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in the U.S. Virgin Islands?
183 people in the U.S. Virgin Islands are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 217.5 per 100,000 people. That is lower than the North America and Caribbean average of 352.1 per 100,000 and higher than the global average of 115.5. The U.S. Virgin Islands has the 180th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 13th-largest of the 19 countries in the IDF North America and Caribbean region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in the U.S. Virgin Islands, another 31 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in the U.S. Virgin Islands?
The number of people living with T1D in the U.S. Virgin Islands went from 49 in 2000 to 183 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 272 by 2040 (+49%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in the U.S. Virgin Islands, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in the U.S. Virgin Islands over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
49
5
1
15
2010
107
11
2
26
2020
154
11
3
45
2025
183
12
4
56
2030 (projected)
213
14
5
69
2040 (projected)
272
13
5
98
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in the U.S. Virgin Islands?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in the U.S. Virgin Islands today is expected to live to 56.0, compared with 76.5 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 20.5 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 30.1 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 14.4 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in the U.S. Virgin Islands, 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
–
46.3
30.1
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
–
46.3
30.2
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+8.6
54.9
21.5
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+7.2
62.1
14.4
How does the U.S. Virgin Islands compare?
Type 1 diabetes in the U.S. Virgin Islands compared with the North America and Caribbean region and the world, 2025
2025
U.S. Virgin Islands
North America and Caribbean
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
217.5
352.1
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
14.0
12.4
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
30.6
26.5
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
56.0
66.1
51.3
Expected age at death, 10-year-old in general population
76.5
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.
