T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF South and Central America region · Upper-Middle-Income country
An estimated 15,577 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Venezuela in 2025. Each year about 880 people are newly diagnosed and 376 people with T1D die. A further 8,518 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
15,577
New diagnoses this year
880
Deaths this year
376
Missing people
8,518
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
45.0years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Venezuela?
15,577 people in Venezuela are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 54.6 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. Venezuela has the 75th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 8th-largest of the 20 countries in the IDF South and Central America region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Venezuela, another 55 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Venezuela?
The number of people living with T1D in Venezuela went from 6,291 in 2000 to 15,577 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 21,469 by 2040 (+38%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Venezuela, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Venezuela over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
6,291
536
196
3,158
2010
11,263
871
306
5,412
2020
13,989
822
346
7,368
2025
15,577
880
376
8,518
2030 (projected)
17,604
1,016
475
9,987
2040 (projected)
21,469
1,029
540
13,228
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Venezuela?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Venezuela today is expected to live to 45.0, compared with 74.2 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 29.2 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 35.9 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 15.7 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Venezuela, 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
–
38.4
35.9
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
+2.5
40.9
33.3
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+9.6
50.5
23.7
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+8.0
58.5
15.7
How does Venezuela compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Venezuela compared with the South and Central America region and the world, 2025
2025
Venezuela
South and Central America
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
54.6
160.6
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
3.1
9.0
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
54.7
45.8
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
45.0
52.4
51.3
Expected age at death, 10-year-old in general population
74.2
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.
