T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Western Pacific region · Lower-Middle-Income country
An estimated 24,544 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Viet Nam in 2025. Each year about 2,279 people are newly diagnosed and 908 people with T1D die. A further 10,949 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
24,544
New diagnoses this year
2,279
Deaths this year
908
Missing people
10,949
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
37.6years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Viet Nam?
24,544 people in Viet Nam are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 24.2 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. Viet Nam has the 58th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 7th-largest of the 33 countries in the IDF Western Pacific region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Viet Nam, another 45 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Viet Nam?
The number of people living with T1D in Viet Nam went from 896 in 2000 to 24,544 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 44,303 by 2040 (+81%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Viet Nam, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Viet Nam over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
896
139
62
844
2010
4,916
1,067
304
2,332
2020
17,350
2,016
651
7,056
2025
24,544
2,279
908
10,949
2030 (projected)
32,047
2,867
1,351
16,283
2040 (projected)
44,303
2,725
1,755
30,797
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Viet Nam?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Viet Nam today is expected to live to 37.6, compared with 76.6 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 39.0 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 46.0 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 15.3 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Viet Nam, 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
–
30.6
46.0
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
+3.0
33.6
43.0
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+19.9
53.5
23.1
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+7.9
61.4
15.3
How does Viet Nam compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Viet Nam compared with the Western Pacific region and the world, 2025
2025
Viet Nam
Western Pacific
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
24.2
43.1
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
2.2
2.4
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
44.6
30.7
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
37.6
56.4
51.3
Expected age at death, 10-year-old in general population
76.6
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.
